Hi Simon,
Thank you! Stoked to hear! I am a fan of hledger! I was looking at hledger
before I thought of giving a quick spin on wrapping ledger round with a GUI
Node app... I wanted something on my Launchpad. More than a year on and I
am still at it.. And I am still learning and discovering ledger
functionalities, better way of getting certain reports... And its probably
good for me to look at hledger and beancount too in earnest.
Anyway, I think there may be a couple of reasons why you're not seeing the
numbers for some of the months, stemming from the fact that all reports in
Prudent uses Ledger's magical market value option (-V) to normalize the
commodities to a base rate (I should probably document this):
*1) A slightly older version of ledger requires a space for certain
transaction. I.e.*
2018/01/01 *Opening balances
Assets:Savings $3000
Equity:Opening Balances
2018/01/05
Assets:Shares 5 APPL@$100
Assets:Savings
*With Ledger 3.0.0-20120510* (the version currently available on
https://www.ledger-cli.org/download.html).
$ ledger -V --empty bal Savings Current Liabilities
-500
$3000 Assets:Savings
*With Ledger 3.1.1-20160111:*
$ ledger -V --empty bal Savings Current Liabilities
$2500 Assets:Savings
*2) If you have transactions with different commodities within an account
and the exchange rate between the commodities is not defined.*
The Month card values are based on market value (-V) with a base
commodity, so it tries to sum and convert as much as -V.
So, if you have something like this:
2018/06/27
Assets $1000
Income
2018/06/28
Assets €500
Income
Even -V returns multiple prices:
$ ledger -V --empty bal Assets Liabilities
$1000
€500 Assets
This is of course the right thing to expect, there is no P line like:
P 2018/06/28 15:50:00 € $1.16
Prudent however, will not show anything without the P line as what I'd
initially thought when I started with this is to make it simple and most
people when looking at reports prefer the summary to be in a single base
commodity (such as the currency of their country of residence).
But I now realize that I might had over-assumed. It is nice for example to
see the number of shares owned instead of total share value in base
commodity for example.
So, I'll work on adding a global toggle to show either only Base Currency
(with an indicator for columns with multiple currencies) or show All
currencies.
Summarily, this might be the reason for the empty months! Will get the
multi-currency display feature out as soon as possible.
Thanks,
Vito
*p.s. On another note, you can also check if there are any syntax error in
"~/Library/Application\ Support/Prudent/Data/logs/error.log". Prudent shows
an X indicator on the line with error, one at a time :)*
On Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:01:07 UTC+8, Simon Michael (sm) wrote:
>
> On 6/25/18 2:42 PM, vitoc wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I'd been working on a macOS editor and reporting wrapper around Ledger
> for
> > about a year (spare time side-project). I'd just completed it and will
> > appreciate some help from any macOS users out there that can try it and
> see
> > if it's useful.
> >
> > I made a website for the tool (called Prudent) here:
> >
> > https://prudent.me
> >
> > The app itself comes with an integrated editor and a calendar-like
> > reporting tool. It's really an effort to make Ledger work for me (taking
> > into account how my aging brain needs more visual stimulus to issue
> > commands to the computer), but I think it might be useful to others with
> > similar thinking structure and needs.
> >
> > I have a lot more ideas for features for it and will continue working on
> it
> > but really want to get it out there to see how far such a tool can go :)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Vito
> >
>
> Hi Vito,
>
> congratulations and thanks for Prudent, which so far seems to be a
> freeware, closed source, React-native based, Ledger GUI for mac.
>
> I like the app design (and home page) very much. It's something I was
> thinking about when starting hledger: log of transactions goes in,
> useful reports come out, the end. An accounting appliance with no
> confusing choices.
>
> FYI:
>
> - yesterday it was downloading very slowly. Download worked fine today.
>
> - I commented out some things in my hledger journal to make it
> Ledger-compatible. Then I added some account aliases to get
> Prudent-compatible account names. I got a few numbers showing up:
> Income, Expenses, Profit for may, july, and august only. The journal has
> data for all accounts from january to august. Since it's closed source I
> couldn't troubleshoot further.
>
> Best!
>
> -Simon
>
>
>
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