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  11     HomeBank User manual
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  14     <h1>Using the Vehicle cost feature</h1>
  15     <p>An additional capability of HomeBank is to follow the cost of each of your vehicles: fuel consumption and other costs. It will for example display some cost globally and for 100 km/miles, and some other useful informations.</p>
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  17       <li>Step 1: <a href="#category">Create the vehicles categories</a></li>
  18       <li>Step 2: <a href="#transactions">Fill some transaction with vehicle-cost data's</a></li>
  19       <li>Step 3: <a href="#result">View the results in the vehicle cost report</a></li>
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  23     <h3><a id="category" name="category"></a>Step 1: Create the vehicles categories</h3>
  24     <p>Create some categories for each of your vehicle. You can use categories or subcategories as well. Optionally you can set the default vehicle for the vehicle-cost report window from the <a href="dlg-wall.html">wallet dialog</a>.</p>
  25     <p><img alt="" class="gtkshot left" src="images/use-vehiclecost1.png"></p>
  26     <p>For example, create an 'Audi 80' category:</p>
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  28       <li>open the <a href="dlg-cate.html">category dialog</a></li>
  29       <li>create a category named 'Audi 80'</li>
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  34     <h3><a id="transactions" name="transactions"></a>Step 2: Fill some transaction with vehicle-cost data's</h3>
  35     <p>Modify or add some transaction with necessary data's for the vehicle cost to work:</p>
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  37       <li>assign the category 'Audi 80' to every transaction for this vehicle, this includes refuel, maintenance, repair, insurance, or any others costs.</li>
  38       <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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  43         <th>d=xxxxxx</th>
  44         <td>the odometer at refuel time<br>
  45         <em>ex.: d=92458</em></td>
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  48         <th>v=xx.xx</th>
  49         <td>the fuel volume for a <strong>full refuel</strong><br>
  50         <em>ex.: v=45.23</em></td>
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  53         <th>v~xx.xx</th>
  54         <td>the fuel volume for a <strong>partial refuel</strong><br>
  55         <em>ex.: v~15.41</em></td>
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  61     <h3><a id="result" name="result"></a>Step 3: View the results into the vehicle cost report</h3>
  62     <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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