What do you want to eventually do with the Payee field in this particular type of transaction? If you don't need to query by payee, you could write a single transaction pretty much as you showed above, uncommenting the commented lines. Then, 'payee' will be an arbitrary metadatam that will be associated with the posting (not to be confused with the transaction's payee field, which will remain unchanged). You probably knew this though.
On Friday, May 21, 2021 at 7:27:28 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > Thanks. I may try that. It's a little unfortunate that the only solution > involves multiple transactions, because it's nice to be able to easily see > that so-and-so took these five checks to the bank on a particular day, as a > single occurrence. But since the plugin could label all the various > transactions with the same source file/line, and connect them all with a > link or tag, that might be the best I can do. > > Matt > > > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 6:41 PM Ben Blount <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Not out of the box AFAIK. >> >> Yes if you write a plugin: >> - Make "payee" a metadata field on each posting. >> - Write a plugin that splits the original transaction into several. >> >> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 4:23 PM Matt Hellige <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Migrating a non-profit bookkeeping system from ledger, and currently I >>> group bank deposits into a single transaction like this, with a separate >>> payee for each posting. The main deposit posting inherits the payee of the >>> whole transaction, "Our Bank". >>> >>> 2020/01/22 Our Bank >>> Assets:Cash:Checking Account $ 15.00 >>> Income:Earned:Program Fees $ -10.00 >>> ; Payee: John Public >>> ; Dated:: [2020/01/19] >>> ; CheckNo: cash >>> ; Program: Events:Programs:Workshop >>> ; Location: CCUU >>> ; Memo: aspects classes (2) >>> Income:Earned:Program Fees $ -5.00 >>> ; Payee: Cindy Burrows >>> ; Dated:: [2020/01/19] >>> ; CheckNo: cash >>> ; Program: Events:Programs:Workshop >>> ; Location: CCUU >>> ; Memo: aspects class >>> >>> Is it possible to do this in beancount, overriding the payee for each >>> posting? Or do I need to create a temporary account like >>> "UndepositedFunds", or whatever, and separate this into three separate >>> transactions? We operate on the cash basis, so technically I don't like to >>> recognize the income until the date of deposit, and I keep the check date >>> in the "Dated" metadata on each posting. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Matt >>> >>> -- >>> 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/CAFpGnbOWmatQ%2BEMniv9CtGHL0GtzS34CeByco-fCSzHuxurr2A%40mail.gmail.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAFpGnbOWmatQ%2BEMniv9CtGHL0GtzS34CeByco-fCSzHuxurr2A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> 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/CACGEkZtY0Ryom1Gv8YrFpRHx9TifQvKWmkMGeCofLSqqSDMpvQ%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CACGEkZtY0Ryom1Gv8YrFpRHx9TifQvKWmkMGeCofLSqqSDMpvQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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/6282b941-2bfb-4cce-98d0-897ce5c78c72n%40googlegroups.com.
