A few thoughts: - Reporting tools can handle these queries easily, but then you're not able to take advantage of Fava's nice built in visualization. - It'd be pretty easy to write a plugin which inverts accounts like you've described. You could turn that plugin on when you want to do such visualizations, or you could have it always duplicate postings to those other accounts (but you'd need to be careful not to affect totals, so you'd probably want to emit both negative and positive versions of the transaction if you go for the "always on plugin" approach.
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 2:23 PM Scott <swallace...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In fava, the 'account view' shows a journal of postings related to the > account, changes, and balances as well as a graph over time. There are > several situations where I'd like this same set of information but > operating on multiple accounts. This is easy to do if the accounts share a > common ancestor, but sometimes the ancestor is too distant to make this > meaningful. For example, if my accounts were organized as > Asset:<Bank>:<Acct Type>, I might want to get an aggregate view of all my > Checking accounts (Assets:.*:Checking). This information is mostly > available a set of from a set of queries, but I don't think it's easy to > see how the balance to this 'aggregate' account changes over time... > alternatively, if you use the account view of "Asset" and then filter the > accounts to ".*Checking", you almost get there, but if, for example, you > have a transaction that posts to both an Assets:...:Saving and an > Assets:...:Checking, then things don't seem to filter as desired; further, > this won't work at all if the accounts don't share a common ancestor. > > Any thoughts/pointers would be appreciated! > > > -- > 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/0163da3e-82c1-428d-a952-85022370f37en%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/0163da3e-82c1-428d-a952-85022370f37en%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CACGEkZsDZxkcVpZiqJenKJ61cy2tzmMUzzf9PaV31tobUwyyaA%40mail.gmail.com.
