pretty easy change to get what you want ```beancount 2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "budget account" "Assets:*" ``` budget accounts need to be the assets/liabilities accounts you want to track and then you map the Income/Expenses
Need to improve the documentation and feel free to create issues for change or new features hope this works polarmutex On Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 12:13:25 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > Thank you! Please let me know if I can provide anything that might be > helpful in diagnosing/troubleshooting. > > On Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 6:45:12 AM UTC-7 polarmutex wrote: > >> I don't think anything jumps to mind as to why this is not working. I >> will look at it when I can and see what is happening. >> >> polarmutex >> >> On Sunday, June 23, 2024 at 4:16:19 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to get going with fava-envelope. >>> >>> The problem: Budget envelopes show up as expected but I'm not seeing >>> activities show up as I expected they would. >>> [image: Screen Shot 2024-06-23 at 12.24.00 PM.png] >>> My expectations were: >>> 1. The following ledger entries would show up in the Expenses:Food row >>> as -175, reducing the amount available to 1225. It's clear these >>> transactions are being seen and processed by the extension but the Expense >>> postings aren't being counted as budget activities for reasons that elude >>> me. >>> >>> 2. I did not expect to see a Assets:US:Schwab:Checking row, since I >>> haven't declared it as a budget account. >>> >>> Here are the only transactions in the ledger: >>> 2024-06-02 * "Groceries" >>> Assets:US:Schwab:Checking -150 USD >>> Expenses:Household:Groceries 150 USD >>> 2024-06-04 * "Dining Out" >>> Assets:US:Schwab:Checking -100 USD >>> Expenses:Household:DiningOut 100 USD >>> >>> >>> And here are my fava-envelope declarations: >>> 2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "start date" "2024-06" >>> 2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "months ahead" "12" >>> >>> 2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "budget account" "Expenses:*" >>> >>> 2024-06-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" "Expenses:Household:Groceries" >>> "Expenses:Food" >>> 2024-06-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" "Expenses:Household:DiningOut" >>> "Expenses:Food" >>> 2024-06-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" >>> "Expenses:Household:Automotive:Maintenance" "Expenses:Cars" >>> 2024-06-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" >>> "Expenses:Household:Automotive:Insurance" "Expenses:Cars" >>> 2024-06-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" >>> "Expenses:Household:Automotive:Gas" "Expenses:Cars" >>> >>> 2024-06-01 custom "envelope" "allocate" "Expenses:Food" 1400 >>> 2024-06-01 custom "envelope" "allocate" "Expenses:Cars" 500 >>> >>> Can someone please help me correct the unexpected behavior? I'm assuming >>> I'm making mistakes in my declarations. >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >> -- 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/9f907426-e979-4d20-8234-b758c91e0d0dn%40googlegroups.com.
