On Sunday, March 1, 2020 at 4:09:52 AM UTC+7, Red S wrote: > > I find being able to specify different dates for different legs (aka > postings) of a transaction to be valuable. >
Very cool. I have (relatively) frequent need for this as well. There are, unfortunately, all kinds of financial transfers that don't occur instantly. In some cases I can live with the date on one leg being wrong but in others I prefer more accuracy, especially when there are exchange rates or other external factors involved. I've been manually doing this for years and will be glad to switch over to a plugin to make it slightly more obvious what is happening. A few quick comments based on scanning the plugin: For the LINK_FORMAT you might consider adding the date of the "real" posting as part of it. e.g. something like edate-20191225-xkjm. I do that in mine and find that having a tiny bit of human understandable context often helps and prevents me needing to do more complicated querying/digging. "Oh, it is probably that wire transfer, I think I did that in late December". One thing I've struggled with is a nice way to do balance statements. You want some assurance that no money got left behind in limbo in some fake account I never look at. Of course, that's a bigger problem when it is all done manually. But it is hard to autogenerate balance statements when there could be multiple transactions in-flight using the holding account. e.g. you can't just make a balance statement after the final edate to assert $0. How do you handle balance statements for this Hold account in your own usage? -- 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/15ff198b-4533-4c42-84e1-389e67ab10a1%40googlegroups.com.
