I'm sure most users, accountants, and bookkeepers would agree scheduled transactions are *future* transactions.
I think that's the issue... developers think as developers instead of thinking as users or accountants. I remember doing beta for an app years ago and my wife found a major bug that engineers completely missed because she saw it from a user point of view. On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 4:17 PM Stephen M. Butler < stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/12/22 11:59, Glenn Fowler wrote: > > Thanks Gyle, that saves some steps. > > However, I do agree with the OP in that you would think the expected > > behavior would be to pause when disabled, and then when reenabled to not > go > > back to prior to that point. > > How far back? How far in the future? That's why there are dates > there. If you want it to start this month, then change the start date. > If next month then enter that date. If last month or two months ago > (because you are late restarting) then that date. > > If all you do is remove the disable flag and you leave the dates as they > were then the application is doing as instructed. > > Many times as a developer I've wished for the DWIM hardware instruction > to be active -- Do What I Mean (and not as I said). > > --Steve > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 1:34 PM Gyle McCollam <gmccol...@live.com> > wrote: > > > >> > >> You don't have to delete and create a new one, just change the start > date > >> in the one you have. > >> > >> Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone. > >> > >> > >> > >> -------- Original message -------- > >> From: Glenn Fowler <gfowl...@outlook.com> > >> Date: 4/12/22 1:03 PM (GMT-05:00) > >> To: Dale Alspach <alspac...@gmail.com> > >> Cc: GnuCash-User <gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org> > >> Subject: Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug? > >> > >> I'm glad I saw this post as I have a disabled scheduled transaction > that I > >> was getting ready to renable myself. I guess the solution would be to > >> delete the recurring and enter a new one. > >> > >> I would have also expected that enabling would start that day time > >> otherwise what would a disable button really be used for if it goes back > >> and enters transactions as if it was never disabled? > >> > >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 10:55 AM Dale Alspach <alspac...@gmail.com> > 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 > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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. > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > -- > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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. 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