John Wiegley wrote at 2017-03-17 17:26 -0500:
The thing is, the balance report iterates over all the
*transactions* matching your query to build up the set of accounts
it should report; that way, it doesn't report accounts outside of
that query.
Okay, so `--empty` only affects accounts that *have* had activity in
the matching transaction set but have a final balance of zero.
Even if I did create all the accounts mentioned in the "account"
directives, there would be no associated transactions for the
balance report to find. So maybe what we need to do is inject some
dummy "Starting balance" transactions, that simply draw from
Equity:Opening Balances in the amount of integer 0.
Do you mean, create the accounts mentioned by the `account` command
*if* the `--empty` option is used? This seems like it would work in
general, it would fix the problem for me, and it is similar to what I
did in the dummy automated transaction in the original post (and
repeated below). I am not aware of what effect this might have, if
any, on the output of other report commands.
~~~
= expr true
Assets 0
Expenses 0
Expenses:Clothing 0
Expenses:Food 0
Income 0
~~~
Also, is it necessary to assume that the user is using an account
structure that includes "Equity:Opening Balances"? Why not just use
the list of accounts (see the example above)? Or maybe this does not
matter.
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