On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 8:20 AM Chary Ev2geny <chary...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all, > > i never really had a use for the *document *directive, but as I now > logged an issue with it > <https://github.com/beancount/beancount/issues/874>I am kind of trying to > dig in it, hence questions. > > The documentation says: > > A Document directive can be used to attach an external file to the journal > of an account: > > 2013-11-03 document Liabilities:CreditCard "/home/joe/stmts/apr-2014.pdf" > > The filename gets rendered as a browser link in the journals of the web > interface for the corresponding account and you should be able to click on > it to view the contents of the file itself. This is useful to integrate > account statements and other downloads into the flow of accounts, so that > they’re easily accessible from a few clicks. Scripts could also be written > to obtain this list of documents from an account name and do something with > them. > > *Q1*: for the beancount v3, is there any application which actually uses > this now? > I'm not aware of one, but I suspect Fava probably does something. This was used somewhere in bean-web a long time ago. *Q2:* why does this directive need a date, what is the logic of assigning a > date information? > Documents invariably are issued on some particular date. > *Q3:* for me a document, assigned to an account sounds more like a meta > information. So, why invert a special directive? Why this design decision > was done? Why not just write something like this: > > 2020-01-01 open Assets:Bank:Checking > document: "/path/to/file.txt" > Documents are issued at all sorts of later dates, i.e., statements; those aren't transactions so what would you associated it with? A Note directive? I suppose you could. I felt that documents deserved to have a place in the schema, but I guess it's debatable. > > -- > 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 visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/d76fe5ac-708e-46b5-ab6b-e678a8c1b132n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/d76fe5ac-708e-46b5-ab6b-e678a8c1b132n%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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhN-7gEB2mVA4timbggpcxAxGdvtNWTr0eB9hQRkKVd_ag%40mail.gmail.com.
