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21 <h1>Using the Vehicle cost feature
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23 <p>An additional capability of HomeBank is to track the cost of each of your vehicles: fuel consumption and other costs.
24 It will for example display some cost globally and for
100 km/miles, and some other useful informations.
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27 <li>Step
1:
<a href=
"#category">Create the vehicles
30 <li>Step
2:
<a href=
"#transactions">Fill some transaction with
31 vehicle-cost data's
</a></li>
33 <li>Step
3:
<a href=
"#result">View the results in the vehicle
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40 <h3><a name=
"category" id=
"category"></a>Step
1: Create the
41 vehicles categories
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43 <p>Create some categories for each of your vehicle. You can use
44 categories or subcategories as well. Optionally you can set the
45 default vehicle for the vehicle-cost report window from the
46 <a href=
"dlg-wall.html">wallet dialog
</a>.
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48 <p><img src=
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51 <p>For example, create an 'Audi
80' category:
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54 <li>open the
<a href=
"dlg-cate.html">category dialog
</a></li>
56 <li>create a category named 'Audi
80'
</li>
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63 "transactions"></a>Step
2: Fill some transaction with
64 vehicle-cost data's
</h3>
66 <p>Modify or add some transaction with necessary data's for the vehicle cost to work:
</p>
69 <li>assign the category 'Audi
80' to every transaction for this vehicle, this includes refuel,
70 maintenance, repair, insurance, or any others costs.
</li>
71 <li>add the specific vehicle cost data's into each refuel memo field transaction, as follow. The memo field can also contains other texts as well.
</li>
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80 <td>the odometer at refuel time
<br><em>ex.: d=
92458</em></td>
84 <td>the fuel volume for a
<strong>full refuel
</strong><br><em>ex.: v=
45.23</em></td>
88 <td>the fuel volume for a
<strong>partial refuel
</strong><br><em>ex.: v~
15.41</em></td>
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96 <h3><a name=
"result" id=
"result"></a>Step
3: View the results
97 into the vehicle cost report
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98 <p>Open the
<a href=
"win-vehiclecost.html">vehicle cost report
</a>, select 'Audi
80' Vehicle and view the results.
</p>
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