I have been using this method for so long I almost don’t remember how it works.
On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 09:16 John Lee <j...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, at 15:51, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> [2018-12-09 17:48]: > > > The first is based on an idea from Craig Earls from a few years ago > > > and uses automated transactions: > > > > > > = expr (commodity == 'GOOG') > > > (Equities:GOOG) 1.000 > > > > I forgot to say but this allows you to see percentages too, see > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/plaintextaccounting/comments/92jux8/how_do_you_calculate_weightshares_of_a_commodity/ > > Ah yes, now I recall I'm already using this idea (which I imagine came > from the same source) for 'asset allocation' percentages. I guess I can > also match on the account names of the postings in the expression, which > I'd need to separate out some things that I'd normally do with a regular > query on the non-virtual transactions. > > Your pivot idea looks useful too, thank you! > > Still, I'm a little surprised there's not a more explicit way that neither > requires adding extra metadata to duplicate core information like account > names that is already present, nor use of automated transactions and > consequent loss of information (in queries, without extra effort) about > things like account names. > > If anybody has other reporting tools that operate on ledger files that > they'd like to advertise here, it'd be great to hear about them! Even if > they don't solve this particular problem, they might help me and others > write something that does what I want more easily. > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ledger" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ [image: missile_flyout] enderw88.wordpress.com -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
