Quickstart

This is minimal quickstart setup for Tackler.

See Journal Format, Installation Manual, Usage Guide, tackler.conf, accounts.conf and Configuration Examples for how to configure tackler and use it with full-fledged production setup.

Minimal Quickstart Setup

0. Get tackler-cli.jar

Download tackler-cli.jar from here or build it yourself.

1. Make directory structure for demo setup

mkdir tackler
mkdir tackler/txns

# Change current working directory to tackler demo folder
cd tackler

# "Install" tackler-cli.jar
cp /path/to/tackler-cli-x.y.z.jar ./tackler-cli.jar

2. Create few transactions

cat > txns/journal.txn << EOF
2018-06-01 'First transaction
  Expenses:Ice_cream  2
  Assets:Cash

2018-06-02 'Second transaction
  Expenses:Lemonade  1
  Assets:Cash
EOF

The journal data file txns/journal.txn can not be empty, so there must be some transactions to play with it.

3. Verify setup and content of tackler demo folder

# Directory listing of tackler folder
./tackler-cli.jar
./txns/
./txns/journal.txn

4. Generate default reports

# This command must be run inside 'tackler' folder, which was created abobe
java -jar ./tackler-cli.jar --accounts.strict=false

4.1. Resulting Balance and Register Reports

# ... Log lines suppressed ...
# ... There are legitime ERROR and WARNING about missing configuration ...
# ... See Installation Manual how to configure tackler ...
#
Txns size: 2

BALANCE
-------
                 0.00   -3.00  Assets
                -3.00   -3.00  Assets:Cash
                 0.00    3.00  Expenses
                 2.00    2.00  Expenses:Ice_cream
                 1.00    1.00  Expenses:Lemonade
=====================
                 0.00


REGISTER
--------
2018-06-01 Z 'First transaction
            Assets:Cash                                   -2.00              -2.00
            Expenses:Ice_cream                             2.00               2.00
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2018-06-02 Z 'Second transaction
            Assets:Cash                                   -1.00              -3.00
            Expenses:Lemonade                              1.00               1.00
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Total processing time: 1284, parse: 464, reporting: 80

See Journal Format, Installation Manual, Usage Guide, tackler.conf, accounts.conf and Configuration Examples how to configure tackler and use it with full-fledged production setup.