On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:47 PM, dwebman wrote:
I'm new to Ledger but have read the manual and installed it on by
FreeBSD system. I've made some entries and have queried the .dat file
with success. My question is: How do I enter invoice numbers, check
numbers and other reference numbers to paper source documents in
the .dat file transactions?
Put the number in parens before the payee name:
2009/01/01 (100) Payee
I use this for check and invoice numbers.
If you're using 3.0, you can use a more complex system: metadata. For
example:
2009/01/01 (100) Payee
; Reference: A2349BX
This sets both a "code", and a metadata item named "Reference". You
can query on either of these:
ledger reg \#100
or ledger reg code 100
ledger reg \%ref=2349
or ledger reg meta ref=2349
John
