Paul is shocked by the utility bill. He wants to save electricity.
What he wants to do is a typical "improvement program" with as many improvements as possible in different places. Paul takes stock first. He walks through the house in his mind and puts all the energy consumers together. You can't do that in your head. But with meineZIELE you get a thorough overview.
This example shows what that looks like.
The example is opened from the program:
Menu Knowhow >
Examples > Goals > Save energy.
You will learn,
Let's see how he does it:
Of course, Paul wants to know which are the big power guzzlers. From the electricity bill, he only knows the total consumption. He estimates the consumption of the old freezer according to information from the Internet. Others he can calculate exactly, like the motion detectors, which consume their 6 watts uninterruptedly year in, year out.
In short, Paul determines the annual consumption in kWh for his devices, he estimates the savings potential in each case, also in kWh, and he estimates what he has to invest in each case for these savings. In the end, his estimate and the invoice from the municipal utility should match.
meineZIELE provides extra columns for any use for such purposes. There are four of them for text strings, as in the book list example, and another four for numbers. (Customizing the field names: In the details of any entry for all rows at once)
Normally nothing needs to be done for summing up, unless "Sum up budget fields automatically" was switched off in Options / Projects / Budget, see instructions. The tree structure is already taken into account during summation and corresponding subtotals are formed. This works automatically.
After all the trouble, Paul now wants a list sorted by savings potential. But he has a tree structure in front of him. There are subheadings and the numbers are also at different levels of detail. All those subheadings should be excluded from the list. But how to sort something like that?
Quite simply: This is exactly what the "cross-section" view does. You can create
cross-sections yourself (via the selection filter, see also the cross-section
example). Or you can use the "quick cross-section" that meineZIELE automatically
offers as soon as it suspects that something like this might be intentional,
i.e. if some numerical values have been entered in the budget or the numerical extra columns.
The program then displays an cross-section button 
for all
columns that are suitable for this:
Here in the example, two of these cross sections are created as fixed filters
for comparison, as one would do in more complicated cases. In
practice, of course, you only need one of the two solutions.
Here's what the result looks like when Paul clicks the Q icon on his Savings Potential column:
There are only rows left, for which a savings potential has been recorded. All
rows are
moved to the same level and the list is sorted. 
The Q symbol
is now gone and the sort symbol can be seen in several columns. 
Paul
could
also sort in the opposite direction with one click, or perhaps alphabetically,
if he wanted.
Paul gets a little annoyed when he discovers that there are now a couple of
exactly the same measures in the list 
that he can't tell
apart. But then he
discovers a new signpost icon 
that can be seen in every row. This is
exactly
what is intended for such cases. Lines that are picked from
somewhere in a tree-like outline often don't make sense on their own. If you now
move the mouse over the signpost icon, the necessary structure information is
displayed as an outline, just like meineZIELE does in the "Action" view.
Now Paul can begin. One after the other, starting with the largest chunks. Always first things first.
Paul is happy to have discovered right away something he prefers to have: The sector map view also works when a cross-section is selected.Paul chooses the weighting according to extra column 2, in which he has entered the consumption. He gets his estimated power consumption sorted by size as a pie chart:
You can simply leave the quick cross-section with the escape key. "Advanced cross-sections", which in case you have created as a filter, can be left just by deselecting the filter.
