I think people use --pivot to avoid having too many subaccounts. For example, if I sell stuff on eBay, I could use Assets:Receivable:eBay:<userid> to track payments I'm due to receive. However, this can result in a lot of subaccounts, which can have some problems (e.g. you have to declare every account if you want to use --pedantic --explicit).
So instead you would just use Assets:Receivable or Assets:Receivable:eBay, put the customer name or ID in a tag and then you can use --pivot to see who still owes you how much. This is an actual example from my ledger, btw. I use Assets:Receivable:eBay:<userid> at the moment, but have realized in the meantime that I shouldn't use a subaccount for such temporary customers. I want to migrate this over to tags and use --pivot. The thing I'm struggling with at the moment is when you create a subaccount and when to put something in a variable. I know you're personally fond of many subaccounts, but consensus on this list seems to be that a simple account hierarchy is better. * Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> [2014-10-31 15:58]: > I'd also like to understand Ledger's --pivot better: it's really just > requesting for another aggregation dimension, right? From the docs, it > appears to be like a SQL GROUP-BY clause. > What do people on this list use it for? > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Vikas Rawal <vikasra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Is it possible to use more than one tag with —pivot? > > > > Vikas > > > > -- > > > > --- > > 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. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > > --- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
