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[Bug]: Category Group filtering in Monthly Spending report doesn't work

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#7,627 opened on Apr 26, 2026

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Description

What happened?

When adding a Category Group filter in the Monthly Spending report, nothing happens.

Only the category filter works, but the category group filter is not yet supported.

This issues is similar to issue https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/pull/7116 for the Budget Analysis Report.

How can we reproduce the issue?

  1. Create a New Monthly Spending
  2. Select Live, and "Budgeted" 3, Try to filter by Category Group = X or one of {X,Y,Z} 4, Nothings happens, data is not reflected.

Where are you hosting Actual?

Docker

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Chrome

Operating System

Windows 11

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Research direction
Look at the implementation of the category filter in the Monthly Spending report and the similar fix in PR #7116 for the Budget Analysis Report. Then apply the same pattern for category group filtering.
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javascriptreact
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