What I find interesting is that there are a lot of emails on this list about reporting using various "attributes": account, subaccount, period, tags, notes, codes, descriptions, and so forth. Further, one of the most interesting features of Ledger is the "pivot table" type reporting.
Essentially, journal entries are "dimensional". All of those "attributes" (account, subaccount, period, tag, code, description, etc.) are in essence dimensions that are used to characterize a transaction so that it can be distinguished effectively from other transactions and work with the transaction information the way you need to. What if all these "attributes" were implemented consistently as, say, tags. Seems to me that would make reporting more straight forward and elegant. Cheers, Charlie On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 11:53:40 AM UTC-7, david whiting wrote: > > Is it possible to query a note or tag in an account rather than a > transaction? For example, if I have an account defined like this: > > account Assets:Members:T0001:Fred Smith > note 1234 > ; ID: 1234 > > > is it possible to produce a register report filtering on ID (or note) > instead of account name? I've tried > > ledger.dat reg expr "note =~ /1234/" > > and > > ledger.dat reg %ID > > and these don't work. Am I trying to do something that is not possible? > > Thanks. > > > David > -- --- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/c8d1cb28-c5bd-4944-8482-f3577b85c7b0%40googlegroups.com.
