Op zondag 11 juli 2021 13:38:43 CEST schreef Arman Schwarz: > Thanks Geert, > > I'm aware of the need to think in terms of debit/credit signs, but my > question was how I could know whether a positive value in the split element > in the XML will increase or decrease the "balance" that the user sees in > gnucash. > > This depends on the side of the accounting equation the account is on, e.g. > positive split values increase the balance of an asset account, but > decrease the balance of an income account. Rather than manually maintaining > a mapping of account types and whether the sign is positive or negative, I > was hoping there'd be something in the XML or perhaps in those bindings you > mentioned that would do this for me. >
I don't think this is stored in the xml file as the net representation in the gui is a combination of account type and the user preference. The former is hard-coded, the latter can be changed by the user. I don't know if we can access either information via the python bindings. I don't use them myself. Regards, Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
