How to manage transactions, which are split across several files

Chary Chary

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Jun 26, 2019, 5:50:38 PM6/26/19

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Dear all,

sorry, if this has been already covered in documentation or discussion, but I just can't find it.

What is the approach to handle situation when one transaction is split between different files?

Say I want to have a one file per bank account. And then I transfer money from one account to another, which will make it inevitably be present in 2 files.

What is the approach to handle this?

Martin Blais

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Jun 26, 2019, 11:56:28 PM6/26/19

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Choose one file.

There's some discussion of possible features to implement to address this:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x0qqWGRHi02ef-FtUW172SHkdJ8quOZD-Xli7r4Nl_k/edit#heading=h.v7ixc4fx0f41

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Chary Chary

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Jun 27, 2019, 3:36:49 AM6/27/19

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Martin,

ok, thanks.

So, the feature, when implemented, will be called Transfer Accounts

On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 5:56:28 AM UTC+2, Martin Blais wrote:

Choose one file.
There's some discussion of possible features to implement to address this:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x0qqWGRHi02ef-FtUW172SHkdJ8quOZD-Xli7r4Nl_k/edit#heading=h.v7ixc4fx0f41

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Dear all,

sorry, if this has been already covered in documentation or discussion, but I just can't find it.

What is the approach to handle situation when one transaction is split between different files?

Say I want to have a one file per bank account. And then I transfer money from one account to another, which will make it inevitably be present in 2 files.

What is the approach to handle this?

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Martin Michlmayr

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Jun 27, 2019, 9:23:02 AM6/27/19

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You can already use transfer accounts without any special support from
beancount.

in bank-a.beancount do:

Assets:Transfer 10.00 EUR
Assets:Bank-A -10.00 EUR

and in bank-b.beancount:

Assets:Bank-B 10.00 EUR
Assets:Transfer -10.00 EUR

That's what I do.

* Chary Chary <char...@gmail.com> [2019-06-27 00:36]:
> Martin,
>
> ok, thanks.
>
> So, the feature, when implemented, will be called *Transfer Accounts*

>
>
> On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 5:56:28 AM UTC+2, Martin Blais wrote:
> >
> > Choose one file.
> > There's some discussion of possible features to implement to address this:
> >
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x0qqWGRHi02ef-FtUW172SHkdJ8quOZD-Xli7r4Nl_k/edit#heading=h.v7ixc4fx0f41
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 5:50 PM Chary Chary <char...@gmail.com
> > <javascript:>> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> sorry, if this has been already covered in documentation or discussion,
> >> but I just can't find it.
> >>
> >> What is the approach to handle situation when one transaction is split
> >> between different files?
> >>
> >> Say I want to have a one file per bank account. And then I transfer money
> >> from one account to another, which will make it inevitably be present in 2
> >> files.
> >>
> >> What is the approach to handle this?
> >>
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