Metadata on the open directive might be useful? for example:

2017-03-01      open 
*Assets:Credits:CLIENT*   address: ""
   telephone: ""
   contact:""

and build the invoices with a python script.

I use this approach with one of my importers, my importers.config builds a 
list of all open directives with a given metadata (unique ID in the 
bill-autopay-system from), and passes this list to an importer that parses 
this ID.

On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 5:07:14 PM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> Is there a way to query directives which are not transactions?
> Currently I'm seeing this:
>
> beancount> select * where type != "transaction"
>
> (empty)
>
> beancount> 
>
>
>
> The problem I'm trying to solve is invoice generation: want to store 
> client-specific metadata (e.g.: address) in the ledger somewhere; then 
> query them and have the results be the various fields of the generated 
> invoice.
>
> An example might be:
>
> 2017-03-01      note    *Assets:Credits:CLIENT*      "Via Lungolago 13, 
> CH-6900 Lugano"      #address
>
> And an example query might be:
>
> SELECT last(narration) FROM (type = "note") AND ("address" in tags) WHERE 
> account = "*Assets:Credits:CLIENT*"
> ... assuming that a note's text field is referred to as "narration".
>
> This would have the advantage of being able to declare new addresses if 
> the client moves.
> The #address tag is so that other notes may exist without breaking this 
> query.
>
>
>
> I'm not sure if this is the way this problem should be solved, maybe a 
> different approach is best?
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Sirio
>

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