Auto postings not reflected in hledger-web until cleared / account not appearing in accounts list

[rkelly]

I started using an auto posting rule which helps completes transactions that pass through to my checking account.

= liability:card
    liability:card  *-1
    asset:checking  *1

This allows me to enter simpler transactions like this:

2020-09-14 ! buy milk
    expense:groceries  $4.00
    liability:card

This transaction should expand to this:

2020-09-14 ! buy milk
    expense:groceries  $4.00
    liability:card  $-4.00
    liability:card  $4.00
    asset:checking  $-4.00

If I start hledger-web, and look under asset:checking, I'd expect to see the above transaction. However it doesn't appear. Only when I clear the transaction with the asterisk, does it appear.

This makes it difficult to estimate future cash flow in accounts affected by auto postings. Took a while to realize why my pending balances were so high--these auto posting expenses weren't showing up.

Command-line hledger doesn't seem to be affected like this. Just hledger-web. Does it only process auto postings for cleared transactions?

[simonmichael]

Thanks for the report. This seemed to work more or less as expected for me with current hledger:

$ cat a.j
= liability:card
    liability:card  *-1
    asset:checking  *1

2020-09-14 ! buy milk
    expense:groceries  $4.00
    liability:card

$ hledger-web -f a.j --auto
...

The --auto flag is required, as with hledger CLI.

But I'm not sure why the liability:card account is not displayed in the accounts list.

[rkelly]

Looks like I had failed to add the --auto flag to my hledger-web launch script. That seems to do it for me. Thank you, Simon.

I hadn't noticed the lack of the target account in the accounts list.

[simonmichael]

Great. Let's leave this open to follow up on that.

[simonmichael]

I'm not sure why the liability:card account is not displayed in the accounts list.

I can't reproduce this (tested back to hledger-web 1.9). No problem here, we can move along.