On 7/7/19 12:46 AM, AEG via gnucash-user wrote: > Having found that the only way to see the future effects of scheduled > transactions on my account balances is to "Create in advance", I went > through the tedious process of individually setting all 60+ of my scheduled 60!! Wow. > transactions to create 14 days in advance, then later going through the > whole process again to change this to 7 days in advance. (A global setting > would have saved a lot of time!)
So: Edit - Preferences - Scheduled Transactions and set the Create in Advance # of days didn't work for you? > > Although creating in advance is not a problem for some transactions, > undesirable consequences with others have persuaded me to abandon this > feature entirely and rely on AceMoney to provide the information I seek. (I > had hoped to discontinue use of AceMoney in favour of GnuCash). The problem > I refer to is as follows... > > Two of my scheduled transactions, which were set to create 14 days in > advance, turned out to have errors or lacked information that I wanted to > enter on those and all future transactions. This meant that, not only did I > have to edit the future transactions in Transaction Editor but to also > individually edit the ones that had already been created. Yup, I make typos also. Easy to fix. A couple of my transactions (one being the mortgage payment, change every month. Thankfully I get advanced notice of the real values and can modify the scheduled transaction before it is created. Missed doing that a couple of times. My fault. > > If the transactions were just made visible in the account registers but not > created, I would have been able to spot the errors and change the scheduled > transactions before any of them were created, which is something I can > easily do in AceMoney. This leaves me wondering how/why others use the > "Create in Advance" feature because I'm finding it difficult to understand > why it exists. Because it works for me for the handful of scheduled transactions that I have -- most of which don't change or might change once a year. If it doesn't fit your style, find something that does. Or jump in and submit code to add an enhancement. Maybe create yourself a spreadsheet, convert to a csv transaction file, import it. > > Alan --Steve -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 ------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
