You may have to prefix your documents with a date in order for them to be
found.
OptGroup("""
A list of directory roots, relative to the CWD, which should be
searched
for document files. For the document files to be automatically found
they
must have the following filename format: YYYY-MM-DD.(.*)
""", [Opt("documents", [], "/path/to/your/documents/archive")]),
The source code is located here:
https://github.com/beancount/beancount/blob/master/beancount/ops/documents.py#L78
On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 4:48 AM 'Vinit Khandagle' via Beancount <
beancount@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> So I am trying to understand how to use document directive efficiently.
> They way I do is:
> have an "option" directive pointing to the directories lets say
> "beancoount/Expenses". But the declaration of the "option" directive alone
> does not populate the document section in fava.
>
> Then for each transaction I have to point it explicitly to the scanned
> copy in the sub directories in the expense folder for the document to show
> up in the documents section on Fava. This seems quite tedious to do for
> every transcation esp if have lots of accounts in Expenses with 4-5 levels
> deep.
>
> What is the efficient way of using documents so that you don't spend too
> much time recording the entries and you still see the documents in the
> documents section in fava.
>
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