@Benjamin -- Fava has been a great tool for me, and I appreciate the idea of wanting to make a contribution that is useful beyond your personal case. In my mind, fava-dashboards has been a huge asset and really opened up the possibilities of what I can easily be do with fava. I think in that spirit, the idea of generalizing and exposing fava's account view is possibly a very valuable contribution, and one I have been thinking about as well. Specifically, I think there is a gap in that (1) fava only exposes account views based on the account tree and only exposes a few customized reports; and (2) fava-dashboards is very useful for integrating graphing and BQL; but there seems to be a gap in that the account views and reports that are native to fava aren't easily created (AFIK) through BQL queries. I think exposing the elements of fava account/report pages so they can be easily modified ala fava-dashboards would be great
-Scott On Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 5:34:08 AM UTC-7 Benjamin Debeerst wrote: > Hi all, > > Chary, thank you for the suggestion, the screenshots from your Notebook > look interesting indeed and I'd be curious for a share of that as well. > TIL about Marimo as well. > > In my case, my partner is also looking at the reports, so having them on > the Fava instance running in our home network and which is being used > already would be preferable over installing/running/switching to yet > another, separate tool. The upside of remaining in Fava is also that one > can deep link and investigate: "Wait, why did groceries shopping go up > so much last month?" --> Click through to the journal --> "ah sure, I > made that massive purchase for the party" --> "let me add a note to the > journal about that". > > Finally though, trying to bring the thread a bit back to it's original > topic: While it is certainly more technically involved to hack on the > Fava source code to produce reports adapted to my personal needs, I was > hoping to contribute back and make the improvement accessible to a wider > group, also the less technically savvy. Sure I can hack and do whatever > I want for me personally and maintain/run a fork. But the intent of my > post here on the list was to be able to make something that has a > perspective of being merged into mainline beancount/fava. Curious to > hear your thoughts about that. > > Best regards, > Benjamin > > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/8552d9ca-3f0e-4419-8342-66c84b5447f8n%40googlegroups.com.
