Re: Sorting lines in reports

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

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

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

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

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

Sorting lines in reports

Hi all, I have a little pet peeve regarding balance reports. As you might know, a balance sheet is usually organized with assets at the top, from the least liquid to the most liquid, followed by liabilities/equities, from the most immediate to be paid to the least immediate. In ledger-cli the