src/services/dataExportService.test.ts

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ import {
   importCategoriesOnly,
   importTransactionsOnly,
   importTransactionsWithCategories,
+  parseImportedCsv,
   parseImportedJson,
   serializeToJson,
   validateImportedFormatRows,
@@ -728,3 +729,36 @@ describe("the refusal messages are translated (#331)", () => {
     }
   });
 });
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// 5. The manual-categorization flag (#390)
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+describe("a restore writes the manual flag as an integer (#390)", () => {
+  // A backup exported while the Transactions page bound the JS boolean carries
+  // the text "true"; written back as is, the checklist's `= 1` misses it.
+  const fromTheBug = { ...transactionFixture(1), is_manually_categorized: "true" as unknown as number };
+
+  it("restores the 'true' of an older JSON backup as 1", async () => {
+    await importTransactionsWithCategories(
+      envelopeData({ transactions: [fromTheBug, transactionFixture(2)] }),
+      "backup.json"
+    );
+    expect(db.tables.transactions.map((t) => t.is_manually_categorized)).toEqual([1, 0]);
+  });
+
+  it("does the same in transactions_only mode", async () => {
+    await importTransactionsOnly(envelopeData({ transactions: [fromTheBug] }), "backup.json");
+    expect(db.tables.transactions[0].is_manually_categorized).toBe(1);
+  });
+
+  it("reads the flag of a CSV export, 'true' included", () => {
+    const csv =
+      "date,description,amount,is_manually_categorized,is_split\n" +
+      "2026-01-01,a,-1,true,0\n" +
+      "2026-01-02,b,-2,1,0\n" +
+      "2026-01-03,c,-3,0,0\n";
+    const { transactions } = parseImportedCsv(csv);
+    expect(transactions.map((t) => t.is_manually_categorized)).toEqual([1, 1, 0]);
+  });
+});

src/services/dataExportService.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import type Database from "@tauri-apps/plugin-sql";
 import { getDb, withTransaction } from "./db";
 import Papa from "papaparse";
+import { toSqlFlag } from "../utils/sqlFlag";
 import type {
   Category,
   ImportConfigTemplate,
@@ -360,7 +361,8 @@ export function parseImportedCsv(content: string): {
     category_name: row.category_name || null,
     original_description: row.original_description || null,
     notes: row.notes || null,
-    is_manually_categorized: parseInt(row.is_manually_categorized) || 0,
+    // An export from the time of #390 carries "true" in this column.
+    is_manually_categorized: toSqlFlag(row.is_manually_categorized),
     is_split: parseInt(row.is_split) || 0,
     parent_transaction_id: row.parent_transaction_id
       ? parseInt(row.parent_transaction_id)
@@ -638,7 +640,8 @@ async function attachTransactions(
         tx.category_id,
         tx.original_description,
         tx.notes,
-        tx.is_manually_categorized,
+        // A JSON backup from the time of #390 carries the text "true".
+        toSqlFlag(tx.is_manually_categorized),
         tx.is_split,
         tx.parent_transaction_id,
         sourceId,

src/services/transactionService.test.ts

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ vi.mock("./db", () => {
 });
 
 import { getDb } from "./db";
-import { getTransactionCount } from "./transactionService";
+import { getTransactionCount, updateTransactionCategory } from "./transactionService";
 
 const mockSelect = vi.fn();
 const mockExecute = vi.fn();
@@ -41,3 +41,22 @@ describe("getTransactionCount (#351)", () => {
     await expect(getTransactionCount()).resolves.toBe(0);
   });
 });
+
+describe("updateTransactionCategory (#390)", () => {
+  // tauri-plugin-sql stores a bound JS boolean as the TEXT 'true', which the
+  // getting-started checklist's `is_manually_categorized = 1` never matches.
+  it("binds the manual flag as the integer 1, never as a boolean", async () => {
+    mockExecute.mockResolvedValueOnce({ rowsAffected: 1 });
+    await updateTransactionCategory(5, 12, true);
+    expect(mockExecute).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    const params = mockExecute.mock.calls[0][1] as unknown[];
+    expect(params).toEqual([12, 1, 5]);
+    expect(typeof params[1]).toBe("number");
+  });
+
+  it("binds 0 when the category is not set by hand", async () => {
+    mockExecute.mockResolvedValueOnce({ rowsAffected: 1 });
+    await updateTransactionCategory(5, null, false);
+    expect(mockExecute.mock.calls[0][1]).toEqual([null, 0, 5]);
+  });
+});

src/services/transactionService.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import {
   isLinkedTransactionFkError,
   type LinkedTransferTooltipRow,
 } from "./balance.service";
+import { toSqlFlag } from "../utils/sqlFlag";
 import type {
   Transaction,
   TransactionRow,
@@ -299,9 +300,11 @@ export async function updateTransactionCategory(
   isManual: boolean
 ): Promise<void> {
   const db = await getDb();
+  // Never bind the boolean itself: tauri-plugin-sql would store the TEXT
+  // 'true', which `is_manually_categorized = 1` never matches (#390).
   await db.execute(
     `UPDATE transactions SET category_id = $1, is_manually_categorized = $2, updated_at = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP WHERE id = $3`,
-    [categoryId, isManual, txId]
+    [categoryId, toSqlFlag(isManual), txId]
   );
 }
 

src/utils/sqlFlag.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { toSqlFlag } from "./sqlFlag";
+
+describe("toSqlFlag (#390)", () => {
+  it("maps the UI boolean to an integer, never to the boolean itself", () => {
+    expect(toSqlFlag(true)).toBe(1);
+    expect(toSqlFlag(false)).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps database integers", () => {
+    expect(toSqlFlag(1)).toBe(1);
+    expect(toSqlFlag(0)).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("treats any finite non-zero number as set, like SQLite", () => {
+    expect(toSqlFlag(2)).toBe(1);
+    expect(toSqlFlag(-1)).toBe(1);
+  });
+
+  it("maps NaN and infinities to 0", () => {
+    expect(toSqlFlag(Number.NaN)).toBe(0);
+    expect(toSqlFlag(Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY)).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("reads the 'true' a backup carries from the time of the bug", () => {
+    expect(toSqlFlag("true")).toBe(1);
+    expect(toSqlFlag("TRUE")).toBe(1);
+    expect(toSqlFlag("  true ")).toBe(1);
+  });
+
+  it("reads a CSV cell", () => {
+    expect(toSqlFlag("1")).toBe(1);
+    expect(toSqlFlag(" 1 ")).toBe(1);
+    expect(toSqlFlag("0")).toBe(0);
+    expect(toSqlFlag("")).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("maps every other string to 0", () => {
+    expect(toSqlFlag("false")).toBe(0);
+    expect(toSqlFlag("yes")).toBe(0);
+    expect(toSqlFlag("01")).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("maps absent values to 0", () => {
+    expect(toSqlFlag(null)).toBe(0);
+    expect(toSqlFlag(undefined)).toBe(0);
+    expect(toSqlFlag({})).toBe(0);
+  });
+});

src/utils/sqlFlag.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/**
+ * Turn any truthy-looking value into the integer SQLite expects for a 0/1
+ * flag column (#390).
+ *
+ * Never bind a JS boolean through tauri-plugin-sql: the plugin only special-
+ * cases null, strings and numbers, so `true` reaches sqlx as a JSON value and
+ * is stored as the TEXT `'true'`. An INTEGER column keeps that text (it is not
+ * a number), and `WHERE flag = 1` never matches it.
+ *
+ * Accepts what a flag can look like on the way in: a boolean from the UI, a
+ * number from the database, or a string from a backup (`"1"`, or `"true"` in a
+ * backup exported while the bug stood).
+ */
+export function toSqlFlag(value: unknown): 0 | 1 {
+  if (value === true) return 1;
+  if (typeof value === "number") return Number.isFinite(value) && value !== 0 ? 1 : 0;
+  if (typeof value === "string") {
+    const normalized = value.trim().toLowerCase();
+    return normalized === "1" || normalized === "true" ? 1 : 0;
+  }
+  return 0;
+}