I'm keen to create a UI for editing my txns so that I can present a receipt image that isn't yet linked to a txn, and quickly search and link to the correct one.
This is one of the areas that gets the most attention on IRC, is that I link in scanned images to my ledger. While it is an exciting feature, it also adds significant difficulty to my processes. It is incredibly difficult to manually maintain textual filenames to an image file on the filesystem in a text editor, or to locate the right receipt and copy the name into a text editor. One or two is ok, but a hundred? A thousand? My automated receipt matching only works 60% of the time, matching based on date and dollar amount, and so I frequently find myself manually matching txns to receipt images. Typos show up as broken images in my Latex output, and the scans are equally important as the txns themselves. I can't be reimbursed without them. I use external scripts to extract image filenames and verify they exist, or that there are missing or unused images. I find it frustrating, and its certainly not something I can expect of an end user. My ideal is a solution with a UI where I can display a receipt in one pane, and rapidly search to find the txn to link it to in another. I recently shared a Python/tk UI I created to assist in renaming receipt images to consistent filenames to improve my matching accuracy, and I'm quite pleased with the result. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams [email protected] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3
