scheduliong transactions

[Simon Michael]

Hi Gour!

I didn't know about this feature of ledger-mode. (How do you make it generate the transactions ?)


I have been doing exactly the same thing, but using periodic transactions. I keep these in a separate file, transactions.journal, and every so often I do:

hledger -f transactions.journal print --forecast -e ENDDATE >>2018.journal

Or with slightly different behaviour, you could do:

hledger -f transactions.journal print --forecast -e ENDDATE | hledger import - [--dry-run]

Once recorded, you can adjust, reconcile, commit, etc.

Periodic transactions are slightly less compact, but they already exist, and can be used three ways:
- generate real txns to be recorded
- generate forecast txns without recording
- generate budget reports for past txns

There's discussion of improving the periodic expressions syntax at https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/650 <https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/650> .

I like your quote.

I've just installed 1.10 on my Debian (sid) and want to finally/fully
migrate from gnucash...one of the missing features in comparison with
https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger-mode.html#Scheduling-Transactions),
so wonder is there any plan to add it in the future and/or how do you
handle them in heldger?
I've lot of utilitiy bills to regularly pay each month, including bank
fees etc., so it would be handy to somehow automate data entry for such
transacions.
Anyone?
Sincerely,
Gour
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