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An automatic ledger points to an original ledger type: a same set of entries will be used with a currency and a potentially different valuation method compared with that of the original ledger.
On model creation, this field is initialized by default to YES if the ledger type on the line is listed in the LEDTYPAUT parameter.
The ledger types listed in LEDTYPAUT are necessarily automatic types for all the models in the folder. In order not to load them into a given model, the field must be set to NO. The ledger types not declared in LEDTYPAUT can be either manual or automatic types in a given model.

A manual ledger type is a ledger that can be entered and that has its own allocations (accounts, dimensions). It is used to managed entries that can be set up on demand.
The account and analytical allocations being loaded will be deduced from the setup of the account codes and automatic journals but also from the propagation rules defined in the other ledgers of the model.
The balancing, loading etc. rules are thus specific to this ledger.
SEEWARNING A model must contain at least one ledger type that is not automatic.

An automatic ledger cannot be referenced as a main ledger.
For an automatic ledger type, the posting of entries does not require any particular setup.
The principle is to associate it with another ledger type of the current model(Original ledg. type). Then the entries of the automatic ledger are generated to be exactly identical to those of its original ledger.
The only information that can vary between these two original/destination ledgers is the following: the currency to keep the automatic ledger, that can be different from its original ledger, as well as the associated rules (Journal exchange rate type, Exchange rate type, Exchange rate entry mode and Matching option).
For instance, the automatic posting is used to keep an accounting identical with the social accounting, excluding the ledger keeping currency, and this, for reporting purposes.
SEEWARNING Therefore this mechanism is not used to load a double accounting with different accounting structures, such an action being allowed by the manual ledger mechanism.