> On Sep 17, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Adrien Monteleone > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > David & Stan, > > From my experimentation, I think your descriptions are correct. > > Exponents aren’t supported. (yet)
Since the email explanations date from 2005, I don’t think this will be added any time soon. > > All formulas must be simple, but nesting/precedence parenthesis are allowed. > > While you can’t calculate using other splits or transactions as > references/variables, you *can* use variables. > > For example, while in a discussion a few months ago on envelope budgeting, I > decided to set up an SX to allocate my pay to my envelopes based on the > percentages I chose for each. (this was still a very simple exercise since > there was no way to ‘cap’ the allocation and have the excess flow elsewhere) > > I set my Cash split in the SX template to ‘received * 1’ > Then I set each envelope split to ‘received *’ the percentage I wanted to > allocate there. (each ‘envelope’ was a subaccount of ‘envelopes’ which was a > current asset account) This mirrors the examples in the wiki. David _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
