Re: Forecasting beginning in the future
Here's a demo of what I mean. Reading from "sample.dat" produces no output; compare to "another.dat." (Data files attached.) % ledger --version Ledger 3.2.1-20200518, the command-line accounting tool Copyright (c) 2003-2019, John Wiegley. All rights reserved. This program is made available under the terms of the BSD Public License. See LICENSE file included with the distribution for details and disclaimer. % ledger -f sample.dat --forecast "d<[2022]" reg cash % ledger -f another.dat --forecast "d<[2022]" reg cash 2020/10/01 Forecast transactionAssets:Cash $-500.00 $-500.00 2020/11/01 Forecast transactionAssets:Cash $-500.00$-1000.00 2020/12/01 Forecast transactionAssets:Cash $-500.00$-1500.00 2021/01/01 Forecast transactionAssets:Cash $-500.00$-2000.00 2021/02/01 Forecast transactionAssets:Cash $-500.00$-2500.00 2021/03/01 Forecast transactionAssets:Cash $-500.00$-3000.00 2021/04/01 Forecast transactionAssets:Cash $-500.00$-3500.00 % On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 5:53 PM John Wiegley wrote: > > "A" == Alan writes: > > A> Is it correct to glean from this that it doesn't work to give a "from" > date > A> in a periodic transaction? I was trying to do so, but I was not able to > A> make it work. > > I would definitely expect periodic transactions to accept date ranges. > > https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Period-Expressions > > John > -- --- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/CACHqOS-GF3TWi8_6LefO0sQqK_39BpWxgqf%3D1mTambzmfcGc2Q%40mail.gmail.com. sample.dat Description: Binary data another.dat Description: Binary data
Re: Forecasting beginning in the future
> "A" == Alan writes: A> Is it correct to glean from this that it doesn't work to give a "from" date A> in a periodic transaction? I was trying to do so, but I was not able to A> make it work. I would definitely expect periodic transactions to accept date ranges. https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Period-Expressions John -- --- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/m28sdd2n7u.fsf%40newartisans.com.
Re: Forecasting beginning in the future
Is it correct to glean from this that it doesn't work to give a "from" date in a periodic transaction? I was trying to do so, but I was not able to make it work. On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 3:50:35 PM UTC-8 John Wiegley wrote: > > Phil Gee writes: > > > As far as I understand --forecast, I should see the expected development > of > > my checkings account when I send the command ledger -f > > Budget2016_ledger.txt - -forecast "d<[2017]" reg assets:checking. > However, > > if I do that, I only get > > > 16-Dec-01 Forecast transaction Assets:Checking €1460.00 €22711.00 > > > So, all the Expenses from the second, third, sixth and seventh paragraph > are > > neglected. How can I fix this? > > You'll need to include expenses in the report, for them to be factored into > the forecast. > > -- > John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F > http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2 > -- --- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/1594d1b2-a3cd-4e1d-8eda-0883289dd842n%40googlegroups.com.
