Why am I getting an error when creating a budget with the same name of a recently deleted budget - "Inactive budget exists with same name"?

Products

• CloudHealth

Issue/Introduction

You will get this error when you are trying to create a budget with the same name as a recently deleted budget.

 

 

Deleting a budget from the UI is treated as soft delete in the backend of the system.  The budget record will stay in the DB for a few days, but the budget status will be "inactive".  Due to this, the platform doesn't allow creation of a new budget with the same name. 

 
To free up the name, you could rename the deleted budget entry via graphql-API:

1. Query the soft deleted budgets (query{budgets(isActive:false){name id}})
2. Update the name of the budget for the soft deleted entry using the mutation updateBudget (for example, 'Budget Name' to 'Budget Name Deleted')

 Now you should be able to create a new budget with the desired name in the UI.