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Migrating isDraft to a DRAFT tag

Follows the precedent set by Account.isExcludedEXCLUDE_FROM_ANALYSIS, which retired that column in two releases: 79e382a8f made the tag fully functional and deprecated the column, and 263e064fd removed it in a single migration that backfilled and dropped in one step.

Status: release 1 is implemented. Release 2 is the remaining work.

Motivation

Order.isDraft was a persisted snapshot of "the date is in the future", computed at write time in three places that did not agree:

Site Definition
createActivity FEE/INTEREST/LIABILITY → false, else date > endOfToday()
updateActivity same, plus MANUAL + BUY → false
previewImport (dry run) date > endOfToday(), no type carve-out

The MANUAL + BUY carve-out was accidental. The if it lived in is about whether SymbolProfile.name is editable (custom asset profiles), and the isDraft computation merely sat inside its else. A custom asset you plan to buy next month is a legitimate draft, so this carve-out is gone.

Nothing ever recomputed the column. No job flipped a stored isDraft = true once the date passed, while getActivities defaults to includeDrafts: false. A future-dated BUY was therefore excluded from the portfolio permanently, not just until its date arrived.

The goal is that the user, not the system, owns this state after creation. A flag recomputed on every write cannot express that; a tag can.

The rule

The Draft tag is added when an activity's date newly becomes a future date, unless its type is FEE, INTEREST or LIABILITY. It is never removed automatically. The user may add or remove it freely, on future and past activities alike.

"Newly becomes" is what makes this one rule rather than separate create and update cases:

  • create / importdate > endOfToday()
  • updatedate > endOfToday() && originalDate <= endOfToday()

The original-date comparison is essential. Without it, correcting a fee on a future-dated activity the user deliberately untagged would silently re-tag it, undoing their choice.

Two consequences of keying the rule on the date transition alone, both intentional:

  • Changing only the type does not assign the tag. A future-dated FEE edited into a BUY keeps its date, so originalDate is already in the future and the rule declines. The old code recomputed from the date and would have marked it a draft. Widening the rule to the type transition would mean re-tagging activities the user untagged, which is the behaviour the original-date comparison exists to prevent.
  • An update that does not send tags leaves them untouched. tags is optional in UpdateOrderDto, and treating an absent list as an empty one would let a partial update drop the tag with no way for the rule to restore it. Such an update still gains the tag when its date newly moves into the future, via connect rather than set.

Semantics

DRAFT is stronger than EXCLUDE_FROM_ANALYSIS, not equivalent to it:

Appears in portfolio analysis Appears in "Excluded" summary Counted in activitiesCount
normal yes no yes
EXCLUDE_FROM_ANALYSIS no yes yes
DRAFT no no yes

The guiding principle: record counts include drafts, money aggregates do not. activitiesCount answers "how many records are in this account" — a draft is a record. totalOfExcludedActivities answers "how much money" — a draft has not happened.

Counting drafts also closes a hole in a delete guard. accounts-table.component.html:333 disables the Delete account button via element.activitiesCount > 0. An account holding only drafts reported 0 before, so Delete was enabled; deleteAccount calls account.delete() with no guard, and Order.account is an optional relation with no onDelete (schema.prisma:177), so Prisma's default SetNull silently detached those activities.

It also reconciles two counts that disagreed: user.activitiesCount is a raw _count.activities (user.service.ts:316) and already included drafts, while the per-account counts did not.

The two tags therefore stay independent predicates — do not group them into a shared "excluding tags" set. includeDrafts survives as a getActivities parameter, simply re-implemented as a tag predicate instead of where.isDraft = false.

This was already the behaviour before the migration: getSummary omits includeDrafts, so it defaults to false and drafts are dropped at the DB before the excluded / non-excluded split runs.

Data gathering stays derived from the date, never from a tag. There is no market price to fetch for a date that has not happened, so no tag decision may reach that code path. This is the one piece of isDraft that must not become user-owned.

DRAFT is per-activity, never per-collection

DRAFT is the first system tag that qualifies a single record rather than a container, so every path that assigns tags to a set of records has to refuse it. There are three:

Path Target Guard
accountService.createAccount / updateAccount an account validateTagIdsWithoutDraftTag
activitiesService.assignTags every activity of a holding validateTagIdsWithoutDraftTag
activitiesService.updateActivity one activity none — this is where DRAFT belongs

tagService.validateTagIds only checks ownership, and system tags have userId = null, so it accepts DRAFT by design. validateTagIdsWithoutDraftTag wraps it with the rejection and is what the first two paths call.

assignTags needs more than a guard. It writes tags: { set: [...] } over every activity of a holding, so even with DRAFT rejected on input the set would drop a tag an individual activity already carries. It therefore loads each activity's tags and carries DRAFT over per row. This is also the write path most easily forgotten — it is the third place the deprecated column has to be mirrored, and the reason the mirror is worth keeping in mind at every tags write rather than only at the two obvious ones.

Both client dialogs that feed these paths filter DRAFT out of tagsAvailable: create-or-update-account-dialog.component.ts and holding-detail-dialog.component.ts.

Release 1 — introduce the tag, deprecate isDraft (done)

The tag is the single source of truth for every read. The column stays in the database as an exact mirror of the tag, deprecated and unread, so that release 2 is a pure deletion.

1 — Introduce the tag

The migration creates the Tag row and backfills _OrderToTag from isDraft = true. It cannot be left to the seed even though seed.mts uses createMany({ skipDuplicates: true }) and runs on every start — docker/entrypoint.sh runs prisma migrate deploy before prisma db seed, so the backfill's foreign key has to create its own target.

Why the backfill ships here and not with the drop. Reads move to the tag in this same release. Without the backfill, every existing isDraft = true row would read as not a draft the moment it deploys, and a future-dated BUY would re-enter the portfolio as a holding the user does not own yet. isExcluded could defer its backfill because its release 1 read isExcluded || tag; this migration reads the tag alone, so the data has to be there first. Step 6 is what makes that safe to revert.

Rename and delete guarding in the admin control panel comes free — tags.controller.ts:73 already rejects anything isSystemTag matches.

2 — Make it activity-only

See DRAFT is per-activity, never per-collection above.

3 — Helpers

Mirroring account.helper.ts field for field:

  • isDraftActivity({ tags }) in helper.ts, next to isAccountExcluded — the shared read predicate
  • WHERE_ACTIVITY_NOT_DRAFT in activity.helper.ts, next to WHERE_ACCOUNT_NOT_EXCLUDED — the Prisma equivalent
  • isActivityInFuture({ date }), next to isAccountBalanceInFuture — the date predicate that keeps data gathering off the tag
  • isDraftTagToBeAssigned({ date, originalDate, type }) — the transition rule above
  • getTagsWithDraftTag({ date, draftTag, originalDate, tags, type }) — applies that rule to a tag list. Generic over the tag shape, because the write paths pass { id } while the import preview needs the full Tag for its response

Both date-dependent helpers take an injectable endOfTodayDate so the rule is testable without freezing the clock; see activity.helper.spec.ts.

4 — Auto-assign on write

Apply the transition rule via getTagsWithDraftTag in createActivity, updateActivity and the import dry run.

updateActivity needs the stored date to evaluate the rule. The controller already loads the activity as originalActivity to authorize the request (activities.controller.ts:317), so it passes the date down rather than the service issuing a second query.

The import dry run resolves the Tag row from the user's tag list once, above the loop, and falls back to the compile-time constant. Degrading to "no tag" on a lookup miss would make the preview disagree with what the real run writes, which is the divergence this step removes.

5 — Switch reads to the tag

The DB filter in getActivities becomes WHERE_ACTIVITY_NOT_DRAFT.

Gotcha 1: where.tags and where.OR are already assigned further down in getActivities. A second assignment silently clobbers the first, so this must go through the existing andConditions array.

Gotcha 2: includeDrafts defaults to false, so pushing the exclusion unconditionally makes the tag unfilterable — the tag filter pushes tags: { some: DRAFT } into the same andConditions, and the two contradict. The exclusion is skipped when filtersByTag contains TAG_ID_DRAFT. Without this, step 7's "DRAFT stays visible in the filter list" yields an empty portfolio rather than the drafts.

Field reads converted:

The two gather gates (activities.controller.ts:291 and the else branch of updateActivity) convert to isActivityInFuture instead — they are date questions, not tag questions.

In the two count loops the guard moves rather than disappears — off the record count, onto the money sums:

  • account.service.ts:245 — count only, so the loop collapses to activitiesCount = account.activities.length. Its include needs nothing added.
  • portfolio.service.ts:216 — the count becomes unconditional, and the DIVIDEND / INTEREST cases gain the draft guard the count gives up (see below). This loop reads raw Prisma rows, so its include needs tags added to activities — the existing tags: true there is the account's tags, not the activities'. Narrowed to where: { id: TAG_ID_DRAFT }, select: { id: true }, since the loop only asks one yes/no question and the alternative materialises every tag row of every activity on each request.

Fixing the dividend and interest sums

That loop iterated an unfiltered include and gated only the count on isDraft. dividendInBaseCurrency and interestInBaseCurrency were not gated, so a future-dated DIVIDEND contributed money the user has not received. Both sums move behind the draft check, which is what makes the record-vs-money principle hold in both directions.

INTEREST is exempt from auto-assignment, so the guard there only bites when the user tags an interest activity by hand — applied anyway for consistency.

6 — Reduce isDraft to a mirror

The column is no longer computed from the date at any write site. It is written as isDraftActivity({ tags }) over the tag list the same statement persists, which makes it exact rather than merely close. Four statements write it:

Site Mirror
createActivity isDraftActivity({ tags: tagsToConnect })
updateActivity isDraftActivity({ tags: tagsToSet }), or true when the date newly moves into the future and no tags were sent
assignTags the activity's own draft state, carried over
previewImport (dry run) isDraftActivity({ tags: previewTags }) — response only, nothing persisted

This is what carries the release. It keeps the deprecated field truthful for API consumers during the deprecation window, and it makes release 1 revertible by deploy rather than by database restore: roll the code back and the column is still correct for every row, because every write since the deploy mirrored the tag and the backfill covered everything before it. A single tag write that skips the mirror breaks that guarantee for the rows it touches, which is why the table above is exhaustive rather than illustrative.

Lifting the computation out of the profile-editability else in updateActivity is what un-exempts MANUAL + BUY. That is safe now precisely because nothing reads the column.

Marked in schema.prisma, as isExcluded was:

/// @deprecated Use the "Draft" tag (`TAG_ID_DRAFT`) instead
isDraft Boolean @default(false)

7 — Visibility

  • user.service.ts:198 narrowed user.tags to only EXCLUDE_FROM_ANALYSIS for Basic subscribers. DRAFT is added, or Basic users get auto-tagged drafts they cannot untag.
  • DRAFT stays visible in the portfolio filter list. The exclusion of EXCLUDE_FROM_ANALYSIS at portfolio-filter-form.util.ts:110 is not extended to it — filtering for uncertain activities is the point of the tag. Leaving that list alone is necessary but not sufficient; see gotcha 2 in step 5.

8 — Changelog

### Added

- Added the _Draft_ tag, assigned automatically to activities dated in the future

### Changed

- Deprecated the `isDraft` attribute of the activity in favor of the _Draft_ tag
- Changed the activities count of an account to include draft activities
- Extended the _Draft_ tag to activities with a custom asset profile of type `BUY`

### Fixed

- Fixed the dividend and interest of an account by excluding draft activities

Release 2 — remove isDraft

Ships once release 1 has been out and proven. The data moved in release 1, so this migration only drops:

-- DropIndex
DROP INDEX "Order_isDraft_idx";

-- AlterTable
ALTER TABLE "Order" DROP COLUMN "isDraft";

Keeping the drop in its own release is the entire point of the split: it is the one step that cannot be undone by a deploy.

Then remove the field:

git grep -n isDraft should come back empty apart from the historical migrations under prisma/migrations, which are never edited.

Activity extends Order loses isDraft with the schema. It is dropped from the response rather than recomputed — the client already receives tags and already derives isExcludedFromAnalysis that way, so deriving isDraft identically is the consistent end state.

Changelog, following the isExcluded precedent:

### Changed

- Removed the deprecated `isDraft` attribute of the activity in favor of the _Draft_ tag including a data migration

Follow-ups, not part of either release

Found while migrating, unrelated to the column:

  • getAccounts materialises every activity to take its .length. account.service.ts uses include: { activities: true } and, since release 1 collapsed the loop, reads nothing but the array length before delete result.activities. _count: { select: { activities: true } } returns the same number from the database.
  • hasDrafts in activities-table.component.ts:143 is never assigned. It has no @Input and no writer, yet gates the bulk Export Drafts as ICS action, which is therefore permanently disabled. Predates this migration; hasDrafts = data.some(isDraftActivity) now fixes it.

Behavioural changes to call out in the pull request

Every existing draft becomes visible and removable. Nothing recomputed the column, so a future-dated activity whose date has since passed was excluded from the portfolio permanently. After the backfill those rows carry the Draft tag and are still excluded — but the user can now see why, and remove it. That is a fix, though it will look like a change to anyone affected.

activitiesCount starts including drafts, which changes a visible number in the accounts table and enables the Delete account guard for accounts holding only drafts.

A MANUAL + BUY activity can now become a draft, where the accidental carve-out previously prevented it on update.