Unless one lives in a science fiction world with time travel available one does not normally *schedule* something to occur in the past. :) If this is kept as a feature then perhaps the name should be changed to "automatic transaction creation tool". Dale
On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 11:32 AM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 4/12/2022 10:55 AM, Dale Alspach wrote: > > I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months. > > When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start > date. I > > was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered transactions > > for all of the months when it was disabled. > > Automatically altering the past seems extremely dangerous. It seems to > me > > a warning should be given or scheduled transactions should only insert > > future transactions. > > Dale > > Computers are like that. They obediently do what you tell them to, not > what you meant to tell them to do. > > I suspect you expected some different behavior. That you expected it to > "remember" that you had disabled the scheduled transfers AT SOME POINT > IN TIME and you expected that to be "remembered" when you re-enabled the > transfers. In other words, you expected the disable to have dates > associated with it << disable from date X to date Y >> > > Look at your options when scheduling transactions to see what you should > have done to get the behavior "scheduled between date X and date Y and > then from date Z into the future -- hint: that is TWO "schedules" > > About "changing the past" -- aren't MOST of the transactions you enter > after the fact (at a point in time after the transaction has taken place) > > Michael D Novack > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
