On 2022-02-19 Sat, Martin Blais wrote:
> Can you share a minimal example input that will trigger this case?
> Thank you,
>

Sure.

Assume this ledger:

;;===
plugin "beancount.plugins.tag_pending"

2022-01-01 open Assets:Reimbursable
2022-01-01 open Liabilities:CredCard1
2022-01-01 open Liabilities:CredCard2

2022-02-19 txn "A reimbursable expense" ""   ^2022feb
  Assets:Reimbursable                                                   50.00 
USD
  Liabilities:CredCard1

2022-02-19 txn "Another reimbursable expense" ""  ^2022feb
  Assets:Reimbursable                                                   35.00 
USD
  Liabilities:CredCard1

;; 2022-02-19 txn "Another reimbursable expense" "charged to different card"  
^2022feb
;;   Assets:Reimbursable                                                   
30.00 USD
;;   Liabilities:CredCard2
;;===


And run this query:

bean-query ledger.beancount "SELECT date,description,position WHERE
account ~ 'reimbursable' and 'PENDING' IN tags"

If you run it with the third transaction (charged to a different credit
card) commented, then the report is empty. If you run it with the third
transaction uncommented, then the report has the appropriate response.

I know that folks are focussed on beancount 3 these days and that you
might not want to spend time on this, so I should say that shortly after
sending my previous message I realized that I can make this work by
including an entry like the following each month:

2022-02-01 txn "Placeholder entry" ""   ^2022feb
  Assets:Reimbursable                                                   0.00 USD
  Liabilities:CredCard3

(It doesn't matter which credit card I use here, as long as it's
different from the one used in the other transactions.)

Hope this clarifies.

John


>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 2:43 PM [email protected] <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I find the tags_pending plugin very helpful. It's generally quite reliable
>> but there have been several instances in which liknked transactions were
>> not appropriately tagged as PENDING.
>>
>> I now believe this occurs when it happens that every transaction linked
>> with the same link includes the same two posting accounts. In such cases,
>> the postings will always sum to zero. I see in the code comments that a
>> single transaction with the link is always marked as PENDING, and I assume
>> this is to make sure the initial entry in the series is marked as pending
>> even though it totals to zero.
>>
>> I'm not a programmer . Does this diagnosis make sense? And is there a way
>> to make the plugin work in this corner case?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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