I can confirm that I see the error if there is only one transaction
affecting the account and that transaction is resetting it to 0.  Since a
single transaction setting an account to zero is pretty useless I don't see
this as a bug.

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Daniël Bos (远洋) <[email protected]> wrote:

> Using:
>
> 2014/01/01 * a
>   a  = 0.00
>   b
>
> As a test on my (pretty old) build on Ubuntu, I'm seeing the same:
>
> Ledger 3.0.0-20120518, the command-line accounting tool
>
> Copyright (c) 2003-2013, John Wiegley.  All rights reserved.
>
> This program is made available under the terms of the BSD Public License.
> See LICENSE file included with the distribution for details and disclaimer.
> While parsing file "test.ledger", line 3:
> Error: Only one posting with null amount allowed per transaction
>
> However, if I first book something (other than null) to "a", the error
> goes away. I'm not entirely convinced this is a bug, I'll leave that up to
> Craig/John to decide.
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel Bos
>
>
> On Tue Nov 25 2014 at 10:11:16 PM Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Something else is happening. I made up a test file using the xact and
>> declarations you gave and I get the expected results.
>>
>> What editor are you using?
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, November 25, 2014, John Louis Del Rosario <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Tried both $ and putting P after the amount, but still got the error.
>>> e.g.
>>> 11/24 * Adjustment
>>>     Liabilities:Credit:Metrobank   = 0.00 P
>>>     Equity:Adjustments
>>>
>>> Here are my heading declartions if it matters:
>>>
>>> include Accounts.ledger
>>> include Tags.ledger
>>>
>>> commodity P
>>>     default
>>>
>>> year 2014
>>>
>>> bucket Assets:Cash
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> On Monday, November 24, 2014 10:25:52 PM UTC+8, Craig Earls wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Not sure what is going on.  If I use a $ sign instead of the "P" you
>>>> are using, this works fine.  Try putting the "P" after the 0.00.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:52 PM, John Louis Del Rosario <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I just tried to reset a balance (http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/
>>>>> doc/ledger3.html#Resetting-a-balance), but it seems it's illegal?
>>>>>
>>>>> 11/24 * Adjustment
>>>>>     Liabilities:Credit:Metrobank   = P 0.00
>>>>>     Equity:Adjustments
>>>>>
>>>>> Error: Only one posting with null amount allowed per transaction
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using Ledger 3.1.0-20141005 on OS X.
>>>>>
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