I seem to be having trouble with automatic transactions involving elided
amounts. Possibly the problem is my understanding how this is supposed to work
of course.
I see in the manual that "One thing you cannot do ... is elide amounts in an
automated transaction" -- but the Huququ'llah example does use elided amounts
in the explicitly written transactions that the automated transactions match
on. So it seems this restriction is intended to apply only to the automatic
transactions themselves, not to the explicitly written transactions that
trigger the automatic ones?
Here's a file test.ledger to demonstrate:
= expr ( commodity == 'VIFSX' )
(Allocation:Equities:Domestic) 1.000
2015-01-01 * Buy VIFSX
Assets:Broker 100 VIFSX
Assets:Cash $-1000
2015-01-02 * Adjustment
Assets:Broker 10 VIFSX
Equity:Adjustments
Problems:
1. This prints 110 VIFSX as I expected:
ledger -f test.ledger b Assets:Broker
However this prints 100 VIFSX:
ledger -f test.ledger b Allocation
Why don't they both print 110 VIFSX?
2. If I change that file to remove the explicit Assets:Cash dollar amount
$-1000 (so the elided value gets filled in by ledger as a VIFSX commodity
amount), this prints nothing:
ledger -f test.ledger b Allocation
Why doesn't it print 110 VIFSX? It seems again to be related to the elided
amount -- if I add "-10 VIFSX" explicitly to the second transaction, it does
print 110 VIFSX.
I assume the answer in mechanical terms is along the lines of "elided amounts
aren't compatible with automated transactions" -- but I don't understand why
this restriction applies to explicitly written transactions as opposed to the
automated transactions themselves, why this passes without any warning, and as
I say the Huququ'llah example in the manual doesn't seem to follow this
restriction?
Thanks!
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