1. A bounded budget "from DATE to DATE" will now generate entries
throughout that entire range, if it is triggered.
2. An unbounded budget begins, as before, in the timeframe of the
reported posting which triggered it, but now continues until the
present date.
With -n, the first argument is parsed as a string containing
subarguments. Otherwise, each argument is parsed as a separate
argument.
In short, the -n mode mimicks what happens when the query expr after "="
is parsed for automated expressions. The non -n mode mimicks what
happens at the command line for users.
If you have a typed metadata key which contains an amount, you can use
--inject=KEY to inject a posting with that amount wherever a match
occurs. There are two main forms of usage:
2010-06-18 Sample
; Key:: $100
Expenses:Food $100.00
Assets:Checking
The command would be:
ledger reg --inject=Key
In the above, transactional form, a posting under the account "Key" will
be injected before the first posting reported for this transaction.
It's amount will be $100. This only happens once for the whole
transaction.
It is also possible to associate the key with a posting:
2010-06-18 Sample
Expenses:Food $100.00
; Key:: $100
Assets:Checking
Now the injected posting is generated whenever that particular post is
reported.
If a posting has the metadata field "Payee" set to a string, that will
be used as the payee name for that posting. This affects the register
report, the payees report, and the --by-payee option.
This is useful because sometimes I send, say, 4 checks at a time to my
bank. So on my bank statement, this is all just one amount:
2010-06-17 Sample
Assets:Bank $400.00
Income:Check1 $-100.00
Income:Check2 $-100.00
Income:Check3 $-100.00
Income:Check4 $-100.00
Though it's important that the Assets:Bank posting be a single posting
of $400 value, I'd like for income reports to show whom each check came
from. Now I can say:
2010-06-17 Sample
Assets:Bank $400.00
Income:Check1 $-100.00 ; Payee: Person One
Income:Check2 $-100.00 ; Payee: Person Two
Income:Check3 $-100.00 ; Payee: Person Three
Income:Check4 $-100.00 ; Payee: Person Four
When I report this, it appears as:
10-Jun-17 Sample Assets:Bank $400.00 $400.00
Person One Income:Check1 $-100.00 $300.00
Person Two Income:Check2 $-100.00 $200.00
Person Three Income:Check3 $-100.00 $100.00
Person Four Income:Check4 $-100.00 0
This shows that they are all in the same transaction (which is why the
date is not repeated), but they have different payees.
