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14 <h1>Using the Vehicle cost feature
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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>
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
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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=
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"images/use-vehiclecost1.png"></p>
26 <p>For example, create an 'Audi
80' category:
</p>
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
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35 <p>Modify or add some transaction with necessary data's for the vehicle cost to work:
</p>
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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44 <td>the odometer at refuel time
<br>
45 <em>ex.: d=
92458</em></td>
49 <td>the fuel volume for a
<strong>full refuel
</strong><br>
50 <em>ex.: v=
45.23</em></td>
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
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62 <p>Open the
<a href=
"win-vehiclecost.html">vehicle cost report
</a>, select 'Audi
80' Vehicle and view the results.
</p>
63 <p><img alt=
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"gtkshot left" src=
"images/use-vehiclecost3.png"></p>
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