On Tuesday, January 4, 2022 at 2:32:20 AM UTC-8 Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Muke Tever [2022-01-03 18:54]:
> > Oh, I see the problem, and I guess it's a little different than I
> > thought. So amount and market(amount) doesn't 'balance' to zero,
> > but they do 'balance' in the sense that ledger doesn't complain
> > about it being unbalanced, if they exist as a regular transaction:
>
> > 2022/01/02 Interest
> > Assets:OBJ 1 OBJ {$5.00} [2022/01/02]
> > Income:OBJs $-5.00
>
> Yes and no.
>
> The example you give only works because ledger assumes that a
> transaction with two commodities balances. (It does an implicit
> conversion. There was some discussion about this recently, in which I
> argued that ledger should not do this.)
>
> If you introduce a third commodity in your example it will not
> balance:
>
> 2022/01/02 Interest
> Assets:OBJ 1 OBJ {$5.00} [2022/01/02]
> Income:OBJs $-5.00
> A -10 EUR
> B 10 EUR
>
> You need the @ on the first posting.
>
Indeed— I constructed it with @ in my initial failed example.
But this helps me out. My goal was to fix the redundancy of having four
lines in the transaction when two were predictable. If it's a matter of
commodities, I can just put a different line in the automated transaction
so it's only working with the one commodity.
The below builds on your first suggestion to me and produces the intended
result, balancing without errors (though I'll certainly rename the tag to
something more applicable):
= %/inventory/
Income:OBJs (market(-amount))
Equity:USD (market(amount))
2022/01/02 Interest
Assets:OBJ 1 OBJ [2022/01/02] @ $5.00 ;
:inventory:
Equity:OBJ -1 OBJ [2022/01/02] @ $5.00
1 OBJ {$5} [2022/01/02] Assets:OBJ
-1 OBJ {$5} [2022/01/02] Equity:OBJ
$5 Equity:USD
$-5 Income:OBJs
--------------------
0
Thank you!
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