New issue 195: Documentation: price entries are no longer automatically synthesized https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/issues/195/documentation-price-entries-are-no-longer
Ethan Glasser-Camp: The Beancount Language Syntax page (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wAMVrKIA2qtRGmoVDSUBJGmYZSygUaR0uOMW1GV3YE0/) includes the following remark: ``` #! Every time a Posting appears that has a cost or an optional price declared, it uses that cost or price to automatically synthesize a Price directive. For example, this transaction: 2014-05-23 * Assets:Investments:MSFT -10 MSFT {43.40 USD} Assets:Investments:Cash 434.00 USD automatically becomes this after parsing: 2014-05-23 * Assets:Investments:MSFT -10 MSFT {43.40 USD} Assets:Investments:Cash 434.00 USD 2014-05-23 price MSFT 43.40 USD ``` However, this seems not to be true out-of-the-box. This beancount file: ``` 2017-01-01 open Assets:MyBank:Cash USD 2017-01-01 open Assets:MyBank:DJIA DJIA 2017-01-01 open Equity:Opening-Balances 2017-01-01 * "Initial balance" Assets:MyBank:Cash 10 USD Equity:Opening-Balances 2017-03-01 * "Bought some DJIA" Assets:MyBank:DJIA 1 DJIA {1 USD} Assets:MyBank:Cash ``` combined with this query: ``` bean-report ~/Documents/prices.beancount all_prices ``` does not report any prices. It seems from looking through the documentation that the implicit_prices plugin is meant for this use case. Activating the implicit_prices plugin causes a price entry to appear in the report as expected. Perhaps the documentation should be amended to suggest the use of this plugin to generate these price entries. Similarly, the Trading With Beancount document at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WjARst_cSxNE-Lq6JnJ5CC41T3WndEsiMw4d46r2694/edit#heading=h.rssekxnidtcf refers to the synthesis of a price entry based on a price in a posting, and should maybe refer interested users to the plugin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/20170923164028.18452.35293%40celery-worker-107.ash1.bb-inf.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
