On Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 11:24:23 PM UTC+2 Ben Gerdemann wrote:


*Question 2: *The documentation says:


   - *Transaction dates: Each posting can have its own date, allowing 
   transactions to balance even if individual postings have different dates. 
   This helps with common issues when transferring money between accounts 
   where withdrawal and deposit dates differ.*

How do you achieve this, if initially the database is created by importing 
beancount file, which has only one date per transaction?


On import into the database, we assign the beancount transaction date to 
each posting. On export to a beancount file, since beancount doesn't 
support dated postings, we use the date of the first posting for the 
transaction date.

I hope this answers your questions. If you have more queries or need 
further clarification, I'm happy to help.

Best regards,
Ben


Thanks for the answer. but I am not sure I understand the workflow

1) You create a beancount file normal way
2) You import beancount file into the beanpost database. 
3)Then you do some manipulations on the entries inside the beanpost  which 
create the situation, equivalent of the beancount having different dates on 
postings, which belong to the same transaction.
Is this correct?
Or do you you create new entries, which are not coming from beancount?
 

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