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Migrating isDraft to a DRAFT tag
Follows the precedent set by Account.isExcluded → EXCLUDE_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.
Motivation
Order.isDraft is a persisted snapshot of "the date is in the future", computed at write
time in three places that do not agree:
| Site | Definition |
|---|---|
| activities.service.ts:263 (create) | FEE/INTEREST/LIABILITY → false, else date > endOfToday() |
| activities.service.ts:993 (update) | same, plus MANUAL + BUY → false |
| import.service.ts:734 (dry run) | date > endOfToday(), no type carve-out |
The MANUAL + BUY carve-out is accidental. The if it lives in is about whether
SymbolProfile.name is editable (custom asset profiles), and the isDraft computation
merely sits inside its else. A custom asset you plan to buy next month is a legitimate
draft, so this carve-out goes away.
Nothing ever recomputes the column. No job flips a stored isDraft = true once the date
passes, while getActivities defaults to includeDrafts: false
(activities.service.ts:639).
A future-dated BUY is therefore excluded from the portfolio permanently, not just
until its date arrives.
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 / import —
date > endOfToday() - update —
date > endOfToday() && storedDate <= endOfToday()
The stored-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.
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:327
disables the Delete account button via element.activitiesCount > 0. An account holding
only drafts reports 0 today, so Delete is enabled;
deleteAccount calls account.delete()
with no guard, and Order.account is an optional relation with no onDelete
(schema.prisma:29), so Prisma's default SetNull silently
detaches those activities.
It also reconciles two counts that disagree today: user.activitiesCount is a raw
_count.activities (user.service.ts:314)
and already includes drafts, while the per-account counts do 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 is already today's behaviour:
portfolio.service.ts:1883
omits includeDrafts, so it defaults to false and drafts are dropped at the DB before
the excluded / non-excluded split runs. The migration preserves it.
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.
Release 1 — introduce the tag, deprecate isDraft
The tag becomes 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
TAG_ID_DRAFTin config.ts, added toTAG_IDS_SYSTEMDRAFT: $localize`Draft`in i18n.ts- entry in seed.mts
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 = truerow would read as not a draft the moment it deploys, and a future-datedBUYwould re-enter the portfolio as a holding the user does not own yet.isExcludedcould defer its backfill because its release 1 readisExcluded || 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
DRAFT is the first system tag not assignable to accounts.
- client — filter it out of
tagsAvailablein create-or-update-account-dialog.component.ts - server — no guard exists today.
tagService.validateTagIdsonly checks ownership, and account.service.ts connectstagIdsstraight through on create and update. Both go throughvalidateTagIdsForAccountinstead.
3 — Helpers
Mirroring account.helper.ts field for field:
isDraftActivity({ tags })in helper.ts, next toisAccountExcluded— the shared read predicateWHERE_ACTIVITY_NOT_DRAFTin activity.helper.ts, next toWHERE_ACCOUNT_NOT_EXCLUDED— the Prisma equivalentisActivityInFuture({ date }), next toisAccountBalanceInFuture— the date predicate that keeps data gathering off the tagisDraftTagToBeAssigned({ date, storedDate, type })— the transition rule above
4 — Auto-assign on write
Apply the transition rule 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:316),
so it passes the date down rather than the service issuing a second query.
5 — Switch reads to the tag
The DB filter at activities.service.ts:639
becomes WHERE_ACTIVITY_NOT_DRAFT.
Gotcha:
where.tagsis already assigned at :766 andwhere.ORat :764. A second assignment silently clobbers the first, so this must go through the existingandConditionsarray.
Field reads to convert:
- activities-table.component.ts:280 and :360
- badge and ICS gate at activities-table.component.html:180 and :516
- portfolio.service.ts:2104
The two gather gates (activities.controller.ts:290
and activities.service.ts:1005)
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:242 —
count only, so the loop collapses to
activitiesCount = account.activities.length. Itsincludeneeds nothing added. - portfolio.service.ts:195-232 —
the count becomes unconditional, and the
DIVIDEND/INTERESTcases gain the draft guard the count gives up (see below). This loop reads raw Prisma rows, so itsincludeat :178 needstagsadded toactivities— the existingtags: truethere is the account's tags, not the activities'.
Fixing the dividend and interest sums
Today that loop iterates an unfiltered include and gates only the count on isDraft.
dividendInBaseCurrency and interestInBaseCurrency are not gated, so a future-dated
DIVIDEND already contributes 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.
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.
Lifting the computation out of the profile-editability else at
activities.service.ts:991-1005
is what un-exempts MANUAL + BUY. That is safe now precisely because nothing reads the
column any more.
Mark it 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 narrows
user.tagsto onlyEXCLUDE_FROM_ANALYSISfor Basic subscribers.DRAFTmust be added, or Basic users get auto-tagged drafts they cannot untag. DRAFTstays visible in the portfolio filter list. The exclusion ofEXCLUDE_FROM_ANALYSISat portfolio-filter-form.util.ts:110 is not extended to it — filtering for uncertain activities is the point of the tag.
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
### 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:
isDraftand@@index([isDraft])from schema.prisma- the mirror writes in
createActivity,updateActivityand the import dry run Omitlist in export-response.interface.ts:18- portfolio-calculator-test-utils.ts:15
- the synthetic
isDraft: falseliterals at activities.service.ts:530 and import.service.ts:168 - 5 occurrences in activities-table.component.stories.ts
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
Behavioural changes to call out in the pull request
Every existing draft becomes visible and removable. Nothing recomputes the column today, so a future-dated activity whose date has since passed is 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.