Yes, that exactly what I do, I have subdirectories with files in it with
the date as the prefix. Yet, Unless I give the explicit path to the
document I don't see the files in the document setion.
On Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 9:08:27 PM UTC+5:30 bl...@furius.ca wrote:
> You may have to prefix your documents with a date in order for them to be
> found.
>
> OptGroup("""
>
> A list of directory roots, relative to the CWD, which should be
> searched
> for document files. For the document files to be automatically found
> they
> must have the following filename format: YYYY-MM-DD.(.*)
>
> """, [Opt("documents", [], "/path/to/your/documents/archive")]),
>
> The source code is located here:
>
> https://github.com/beancount/beancount/blob/master/beancount/ops/documents.py#L78
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 4:48 AM 'Vinit Khandagle' via Beancount <
> bean...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> So I am trying to understand how to use document directive efficiently.
>> They way I do is:
>> have an "option" directive pointing to the directories lets say
>> "beancoount/Expenses". But the declaration of the "option" directive alone
>> does not populate the document section in fava.
>>
>> Then for each transaction I have to point it explicitly to the scanned
>> copy in the sub directories in the expense folder for the document to show
>> up in the documents section on Fava. This seems quite tedious to do for
>> every transcation esp if have lots of accounts in Expenses with 4-5 levels
>> deep.
>>
>> What is the efficient way of using documents so that you don't spend too
>> much time recording the entries and you still see the documents in the
>> documents section in fava.
>>
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