Omit fields

Omit field in the generated transaction

Sometimes, you may want to omit a particular field in your transactions if the value is unavailable instead of leaving it as a blank string. For example, the payee field sometimes doesn't make sense for some transactions, and the value should not even be present. With a Jinja2 template, it looks like {{ payee }}, but without the payee value provided by the transaction, it will end up with an ugly empty string like this:

2024-02-26 * "" "Interest payment"
  Assets:Bank:US:WellsFargo:Saving                                          0.06 USD
  Income:US:BankInterest                                                   -0.06 USD

To solve the problem, you can use a special variable called omit. The field will be omitted when the rendered value equals the randomly generated omit value. Here's an example:

imports:
  - match:
      desc: "..."
    actions:
      - txn:
          payee: "{{ payee | default(omit, true) }}"
          narration: "{{ narration }}"
          # ...

As a result, if the payee value is not present, the payee field will be absent from the generated transaction like this:

2024-02-26 * "Interest payment"
  Assets:Bank:US:WellsFargo:Saving                                          0.06 USD
  Income:US:BankInterest                                                   -0.06 USD