Re: Is it bad practice to use multiple postings ?
Multiple postings are absolutely fine. My pay stubs have something like 20+ postings each. For your particular example, filter the postings, not the transactions. On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:44 AM wrote: > > Guys hi, > > As the title says i wonder if it's bad practice to use multiple postings. > > Sometimes i use transactions with multiple postings, example: > > 2019-09-06 * "Paid for ..." > Expenses:Business:Company1200 USD > Expenses:Business:Company2200 USD > Assets:Cash -400 USD > > or > > 2019-09-06 * "Paid for ... & Received" > Expenses:Business:Company1200 USD > Expenses:Business:Company2200 USD > Income:Business:Company1 -50 USD > Assets:Cash -350 USD > > It worked great for my needs, but now that i'd like to filter expenses/income > only related to Company1 fava filter > "any(account:"Expenses:Business:Company1)" > does not work for this type of transactions. > > So i wonder if it's better practice to use simple transactions like > > 2019-09-06 * "Paid for ..." > Expenses:Business:Company1200 USD > Assets:Cash -200 USD > > .. > > So one can be more flexible with filters, etc if need arises. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/c2eb35fd-428b-412f-a880-552887b448ab%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhMJUxAFsi3NE96Cd9jpcGHve1gpYMAkhG-5RfR1KGPGUw%40mail.gmail.com.
Re: Is it bad practice to use multiple postings ?
I got curious about this too a year ago, and at the time I think the opinion I formed was: - It's okay to have transactions with multiple postings, Martin's made plugins like https://aumayr.github.io/beancount-docs-static/_modules/beancount/plugins/split_expenses.html that will create 3+-posting transactions out of 2-posting transactions. - It's the responsibility of whatever tool is reading/filtering your beancount file (e.g. fava) to appropriately deal with handling multiple postings. Particular to Fava, there's been some talk of this in https://github.com/beancount/fava/issues/812 , where one possible solution would be to display things better. The other option, if you have transactions with just one-source/multiple-sinks or one-sink/multiple-sources (but not multiple-sources/multiple-sinks) would be to have a beancount plugin that will convert transactions like: 2019-09-06 * "Paid for ..." Expenses:Business:Company1200 USD Expenses:Business:Company2200 USD Assets:Cash -400 USD -to- 2019-09-06 * "Paid for ..." Expenses:Business:Company1200 USD Assets:Cash -200 USD 2019-09-06 * "Paid for ..." Expenses:Business:Company2200 USD Assets:Cash -200 USD On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 7:44:01 AM UTC-7, mpl...@gmail.com wrote: > > Guys hi, > > As the title says i wonder if it's bad practice to use multiple postings. > > Sometimes i use transactions with multiple postings, example: > > 2019-09-06 * "Paid for ..." > Expenses:Business:Company1200 USD > Expenses:Business:Company2200 USD > Assets:Cash -400 USD > > or > > 2019-09-06 * "Paid for ... & Received" > Expenses:Business:Company1200 USD > Expenses:Business:Company2200 USD > Income:Business:Company1 -50 USD > Assets:Cash -350 USD > > It worked great for my needs, but now that i'd like to filter > expenses/income only related to Company1 fava filter > "any(account:"Expenses:Business:Company1)" > does not work for this type of transactions. > > So i wonder if it's better practice to use simple transactions like > > 2019-09-06 * "Paid for ..." > Expenses:Business:Company1200 USD > Assets:Cash -200 USD > > .. > > So one can be more flexible with filters, etc if need arises. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/875b2e9c-bca1-44ca-bfac-fec530175830%40googlegroups.com.
Is it bad practice to use multiple postings ?
Guys hi, As the title says i wonder if it's bad practice to use multiple postings. Sometimes i use transactions with multiple postings, example: 2019-09-06 * "Paid for ..." Expenses:Business:Company1200 USD Expenses:Business:Company2200 USD Assets:Cash -400 USD or 2019-09-06 * "Paid for ... & Received" Expenses:Business:Company1200 USD Expenses:Business:Company2200 USD Income:Business:Company1 -50 USD Assets:Cash -350 USD It worked great for my needs, but now that i'd like to filter expenses/income only related to Company1 fava filter "any(account:"Expenses:Business:Company1)" does not work for this type of transactions. So i wonder if it's better practice to use simple transactions like 2019-09-06 * "Paid for ..." Expenses:Business:Company1200 USD Assets:Cash -200 USD .. So one can be more flexible with filters, etc if need arises. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/c2eb35fd-428b-412f-a880-552887b448ab%40googlegroups.com.
