Context Definition
Context comes in handy when you need to define variables to be referenced in the template. As you can see in the example, we define a routine_expenses
dictionary variable in the context.
context:
routine_expenses:
"Amazon Web Services":
account: Expenses:Engineering:Servers:AWS
Netlify:
account: Expenses:Engineering:ServiceSubscription
Mailchimp:
account: Expenses:Marketing:ServiceSubscription
Circleci:
account: Expenses:Engineering:ServiceSubscription
Adobe:
account: Expenses:Design:ServiceSubscription
Digital Ocean:
account: Expenses:Engineering:ServiceSubscription
Microsoft:
account: Expenses:Office:Supplies:SoftwareAsService
narration: "Microsoft 365 Apps for Business Subscription"
Mercury IO Cashback:
account: Expenses:CreditCardCashback
narration: "Mercury IO Cashback"
WeWork:
account: Expenses:Office
narration: "Virtual mailing address service fee from WeWork"
Then, in the transaction template, we look up the dictionary to find out what narration value to use: