John Wiegley writes:
>>>>>> Myles English <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> but how can I remove the Gum line and add it to the Food?, thus:
>
> For a balance report that would be --depth=2, but I'm not sure if it works
> that way in the register or not. Certainly worth a feature request, if it
> doesn't.
Thanks John here is my feature request, what shall I do with it?
Feature request: collapse and accumulate sub accounts to hide unwanted
detail
Use case: For certain reports, I would like to:
- hide the name of a sub account, and
- add it to the parent account
For example: Suppose I would like to conceal the amount I spend on gum
and add the value of the transaction to the Food account:
$ cat ~/tmp/gum_test.bat
2013-08-06 The Shop
Expenses:Food £10.10
Expenses:Food:Gum £1.10
Assets:Cash
2013-08-07 The Shop
Expenses:Food £0.02
Expenses:Food:Gum £0.01 ;; following a collapse in gum prices
Assets:Cash
The basic register report:
$ ledger reg -f ~/tmp/gum_test.bat
2013-08-06 The Shop Expenses:Food £10.10 £10.10
Expenses:Food:Gum £1.10 £11.20
Assets:Cash £-11.20 0
2013-08-07 The Shop Expenses:Food £0.02 £0.02
Expenses:Food:Gum £0.01 £0.03
Assets:Cash £-0.03 0
This almost does it but doesn't accumulate the Gum entries into the Food
entries:
$ ledger reg -f ~/tmp/gum_test.bat --depth=2
2013-08-06 The Shop Expenses:Food £10.10 £10.10
Assets:Cash £-11.20 0
2013-08-07 The Shop Expenses:Food £0.02 £0.02
Assets:Cash £-0.03 0
The basic balance report can get the right totals:
$ ledger bal -f ~/tmp/gum_test.bat --depth=2
£-11.23 Assets:Cash
£11.23 Expenses:Food
--------------------
0
It would be nice if the new feature could get results like this:
$ ledger reg -f ~/tmp/gum_test.bat --depth=2
2013-08-06 The Shop Expenses:Food £11.20 £11.20
Assets:Cash £-11.20 0
2013-08-07 The Shop Expenses:Food £0.03 £0.03
Assets:Cash £-0.03 0
Further considerations, what happens if the level (or depth) of the
required cut-off varies, i.e.
Expenses:Food
Expenses:Food:Gum
Expenses:Food:Nuts
and I want Nuts to be reported but want Gum to be hidden in Food. Then
perhaps an option similar to --depth could apply a default for all
transactions unless an account has a depth configured by some other
method.
Thanks,
Myles
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