This discussion misses the point of the thread: that a single SX that cannot be filled in stops all other transactions from triggering. If you are concerned with how to actually schedule the transactions, start a different thread.
David T. On Dec 28, 2024, 8:18 PM, at 8:18 PM, R Losey <rlo...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 10:25 AM Michael or Penny Novack via >gnucash-user < >gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > >> The point is, an event scheduled for the 20th of each month is >> straightforward/easy. But an event scheduled for third Thursday of >the >> month provided that is after the !6th of the month, otherwise fourth >> Thursday less so, and one for last day of the month, except if that >> falls on a weekend/holiday, the last business day before even more >> complicated (think February and Leap Years. >> > >I am also a software engineer... we also had complex meeting schedules: >we >had a set of three meetings each month that were held on the first Thu >of >the month, and then the following Wed, and then the following Tue. >This >turned out to be incredibly hard to schedule, but I worked out a way >(that >I've never seen implemented or discussed) that would give a great deal >of >flexibility. > >Let's take your case above: you want to schedule an event on the third >Thu >of each month, but if the third Thu is the 15th or 16th, you want the >fourth Thu. > >My idea was to combine a day of the week with a date range, and that >gives >enormous flexibility: In your cited case, you want the meeting >scheduled >monthly on a Thursday that falls on the 17th through the 23rd. > >In my example, the first meeting falls on the first Thursday of the >month; >the next one occurs monthly on a Wed that falls on the 7th -13th; the >third >meeting occurs monthly on a Tue that falls between 13th-19th. > >I came up with this idea around 2015; I've never seen it proposed by >anyone >else (though it may have been), so I claim this as my idea. > > >-- >_________________________________ >Richard Losey >rlo...@gmail.com >Micah 6:8 >_______________________________________________ >gnucash-user mailing list >gnucash-user@gnucash.org >To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >----- >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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
