Thank you for that!! Much appreciated. I'll try it out in the next few days.
On Friday, September 27, 2024 at 8:35:44 AM UTC-7 Oscar & Alejandra wrote: > I think the short answer is 'there is no beancount executable', the > 'beancount' you installed is like a wrapper to those other applications. I > agree the docs and the process can be kind of confusing, but let me see if > I can point you in the right direction. I am also new to beancount so if > anyone else wants to chime in who has much more experience please do. > > It seems you have beancount properly installed so no worries there, your > next step would be to create your beancount ledger file, you can take a > look at the docs here > <https://beancount.github.io/docs/getting_started_with_beancount.html>, > which are still applicable. Basically open up your favorite text editor and > create a file, you can name it whatever you would like but some common > extensions are '.beancount', '.bean', '.bc', '.ledger', etc. So for example > you could call it 'ledger.bean'. > > Use 'bean-check' to check your file for syntax and accounting errors. For > example 'bean-check ledger.bean'. > > Use 'bean-format' to line up all of your currencies on the same line. For > example 'bean-format ledger.bean'. This will just print your file to your > terminal, so if you want to save it back to your original file use > 'bean-format ledger.bean -o ledger.bean'. > > If you want to see some reports you will need to install either 'fava' or > 'beanquery' which are separate applications. Fava is a web interface to > view and edit your beancount file and shows you some reports, which I would > highly recommend you install. You can find the documentation for fava here > <https://beancount.github.io/fava/>. Once you have it installed run it > and pass in your beancount file, for example 'fava ledger.bean'. Now open > up your browser and go to http://localhost:5000 and profit! Fava is a > very powerful tool, it's still in development but you can already do a lot > with it. > > Beanquery is another separate application which will let you see reports > in your terminal, you can install it with pip as well 'pip install > beanquery'. There is not much documentation for the newest version of > beanquery but for the most part you can use the old documentation which is > here <https://beancount.github.io/docs/beancount_query_language.html>. > > You can learn more about transactions and their syntax here > <https://beancount.github.io/docs/beancount_language_syntax.html#transactions>. > > I believe you had another question on the mailing list asking about how to > track donor information, so maybe that documentation can help you out. > > I'm assuming since you installed beancount through pip that you are on the > latest version '3.0.0'. One thing to watch out for is when installing fava > it may override your beancount version back to v2, a way around this is to > install fava FIRST and then install beancount. Fava, even though it is on > the v2 beancount, will still work with any beancount ledger file seeing as > the syntax has not changed between v2 and v3 (from what I understand). > > > Hope this helps! > > > September 26, 2024 at 7:30 PM, "Rick F" <[email protected]> wrote: > > nevermind my nevermind.. I didn't notice my beancount find was a directory > not an actual script or executable.. oh well.. I'll keep digging > > > > -- > > 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/179a2b9c-8bdb-4f9c-915b-ac1c52b5a851n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/179a2b9c-8bdb-4f9c-915b-ac1c52b5a851n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > > Oscar & Alejandra Camorlinga > [email protected] > -- 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/b137b85e-a076-455f-9f63-d0c11b8a6a53n%40googlegroups.com.
