Re: Sorting lines in reports

2017-01-16 Thread Craig Earls
Account level metdata would be useful for may things. If you can work that in i am sure it would be welcome. On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 5:30 AM, Brian Exelbierd wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 1, 2017, at 07:59 PM, Martin Blais wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Jakob Mattsson

Re: Sorting lines in reports

2017-01-16 Thread Brian Exelbierd
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017, at 07:59 PM, Martin Blais wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Jakob Mattsson > wrote: >> Yeah, I've been doing something along those lines (slightly altering >> the names of my accounts) to get it to the order I want - or close >> at

Re: Sorting lines in reports

2016-12-31 Thread Craig Earls
Unfortunately I don't know of a way to have account level meta-data. metadata is at the transaction level. So a value expression would have nothing to sort on. Putting a code string in the account name is the closest ledger can get as far as I know. On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Jakob

Re: Sorting lines in reports

2016-12-31 Thread Jakob Mattsson
Yeah, I've been doing something along those lines (slightly altering the names of my accounts) to get it to the order I want - or close at least. What I think would be more elegant is being able to sort on something that would produce the desired result, rather than relying on account names

Re: Sorting lines in reports

2016-12-31 Thread Craig Earls
How is ledger supposed to know the characteristics of the commodities in the accounts? Ledger just sees account names as a string of characters, it does not treat an account that starts with "asset" or "Vermögenswert" any differently than any other account. It does not know how liquid or