On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 11:50 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > New here (and new to beancount in general); I tried doing a search but was > unsuccessful. > > The problem: I have this "transaction" > > 2019-07-01 * "amazon.com" "stuff" > Expenses:Gadgets 20USD > Expenses:Books 30USD > Liabilities:CreditCard 60AUD > > I don't really care to track USD in my Expenses accounts, so I'd like > beancount to apportion 60USD in that ratio. > > I was hoping that this kind of syntax would work: > > 2019-07-01 * "amazon.com" "stuff" > Expenses:Gadgets 20 > Expenses:Books 30 > Liabilities:CreditCard 60AUD > > where amount interpolation occurs on all postings that are commodity-less > in the ratios specified by the numbers, but this isn't a thing. > > I can probably introduce a special commodity (and, depending on whether > transaction balances are checked before plugins run, a throwaway account > for interpolation) and write a plugin, but I'm wondering whether there are > better ways of doing this.. >
There's currently no automatic way to distribute the interpolated amount. I would write some code. You can try use a commodity and/or a posting flag. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhOmMcwoW-qKDLz553Z%2BW5AqriPOpfmcZ-CnEEgaVLdT6g%40mail.gmail.com.
