Thanks Dan.. I'll have to chew on some of this as time permits.. I appreciate the thoroughness of your replies!
--Rick On Sunday, October 6, 2024 at 6:42:25 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > On 06/10/24 19:39, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: > > On the other hand, keeping the donor information into a custom directive > > does not seem optimal to me. As your big comment block above the custom > > directive suggests, the custom directive does not enforce any structure > > on the fields (and allows only strings and not more complex data types, > > but this may not be a limitation of this specific use). > Thinking about it a tiny bit more, if you really want to use a custom > directive to record the donor data, using metadata for the different > fields seems much nicer: > > 2024-09-28 custom "donor" "john-smith" > name: "John Smith" > address: "123 First Street" > city: "Palo Alto" > state: "CA" > zipcode: "93501" > phone: "123-456-7890" > email: "[email protected]" > > However, there is still no way to extract this using bean-query (and > while typing this I also realized that Emacs beancount-mode also does > not do syntax highlighting for the custom directive). > > Although, if someone has a concrete use-case and a nice idea ion how to > expose custom directive in a BQL table, it would not be difficult to add > it to bean-query. > > Cheers, > Dan > -- 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/1c94f53f-92d5-4a98-870e-c726677247a3n%40googlegroups.com.
