Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions cannot be processed if first in, list has not had variable completed.

2025-01-17 Thread Richard Gaede via gnucash-user
Hi, First thanks to all those who responded to my question. After due consideration and experimentation, I reached the same conclusion as another correspondent: scheduled transactions using variables is more of a nice concept than a practical proposition as currently coded. I can also see tha

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions cannot be processed if first in list has not had variable completed.

2024-12-28 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
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 wrot

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions cannot be processed if first in list has not had variable completed.

2024-12-28 Thread David Carlson
In my previous comment I forgot to mention a second feature that will temporarily work around the need to have a value at hand for a variable is to change the status of the transaction to "Postponed". The "Postponed" status is actually persistent so you don't need to set it back to "To Create" unt

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions cannot be processed if first in list has not had variable completed.

2024-12-28 Thread Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)
On 2024-12-28 08:24, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user wrote: > On 12/28/2024 3:10 AM, sunfish62--- via gnucash-user wrote: >> I'll simply chime in to confirm David's reply and Richard's >> observation. The "all or nothing" approach here is counterintuitive >> and unhelpful. I've generally a

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions cannot be processed if first in list has not had variable completed.

2024-12-28 Thread R Losey
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 mont

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions cannot be processed if first in list has not had variable completed.

2024-12-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 12/28/2024 3:10 AM, sunfish62--- via gnucash-user wrote: I'll simply chime in to confirm David's reply and Richard's observation. The "all or nothing" approach here is counterintuitive and unhelpful. I've generally avoided using variable based scheduled transactions for this reason. It's ano

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions cannot be processed if first in list has not had variable completed.

2024-12-28 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
I'll simply chime in to confirm David's reply and Richard's observation. The "all or nothing" approach here is counterintuitive and unhelpful. I've generally avoided using variable based scheduled transactions for this reason. It's another of GnuCash's features (like lots) that I've decided is b

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions cannot be processed if first in list has not had variable completed.

2024-12-27 Thread David Carlson
The Since Last Run assistant requires that every variable appearing in it's list of transactions that are ready to be processed must have a value assigned in the first step before it will proceed to the step where the transactions are entered. One way to avoid entering values before you are ready i

Re: [GNC] scheduled transactions no longer happen :(

2024-11-19 Thread Ed Love
Thanks so much, that did the trick! I had a few set right, but not all. Your help is much appreciated!     Ed On 19/11/2024 4:37 pm, David H wrote: Well you don't provide any information and we can't see your file but I suggest you check your preferences initially .. GnuCash Preferences >> S

Re: [GNC] scheduled transactions no longer happen :(

2024-11-19 Thread David H
Well you don't provide any information and we can't see your file but I suggest you check your preferences initially .. GnuCash Preferences >> Scheduled Transactions Since Last Run >> Run when data file opened - is this checked on ? Have you tried Action >> Scheduled Transactions >> Since Last Ru

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions

2024-03-23 Thread Martin Booth via gnucash-user
oops missed off the group On Saturday, 23 March 2024 at 09:20:19 GMT, Martin Booth wrote: Hi select new under scheduled transaction or edit an existing one select frequency tab select weekly for frequency and select a start date select every 4 weeks in the box below and the day it wi

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions

2024-03-23 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
Weekly, every 4 weeks ⁣David T.​ On Mar 23, 2024, 8:45 AM, at 8:45 AM, David Jordan wrote: >Hello, > > > >I am trying to schedule a Deposit transaction that is paid every 4 >weeks >(i.e. 13 times per year) but unlike Quicken GNUCash doesn't seem to >allow a >scheduled transaction that happens

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions gnucash-5.5

2023-12-27 Thread mjchurchil--- via gnucash-user
Thanks John  didn't see that one. Also, thanks to the whole team for a great application. Mike Sent from AOL on Android On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 6:48 PM, john wrote: On Dec 25, 2023, at 11:07, mjchurchil--- via gnucash-user wrote: Just as an update, I tried a gnucash-5.5 package on ar

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions gnucash-5.5

2023-12-25 Thread john
> On Dec 25, 2023, at 11:07, mjchurchil--- via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Just as an update, I tried a gnucash-5.5 package on arch. Trying to change > from reminder to to-create has no effect; stays reminder. Same computer, same > database, but different install. Mike > >On Monday, Dec

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions gnucash-5.5

2023-12-25 Thread mjchurchil--- via gnucash-user
Just as an update, I tried a gnucash-5.5 package on arch. Trying to change from reminder to to-create has no effect; stays reminder. Same computer, same database, but different install.  Mike On Monday, December 25, 2023 at 10:52:57 AM PST, mjchurchil--- via gnucash-user wrote: Using

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions status cannot be changed

2023-12-22 Thread John Layman via gnucash-user
Yep. This is the case on Windows also. -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of lj Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2023 7:40 PM To: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions status cannot be changed I am also unable to change the SX status in the

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions status cannot be changed

2023-12-21 Thread Jon Schewe
That appears to be different behavior from what I'm seeing. I've opened https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799180 for the variable value issue. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799179 is close, however I'm not getting a crash. On Thu, 2023-12-21 at 10:21 -0800, john wrote: > I think 

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions status cannot be changed

2023-12-21 Thread john
I think https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799179 covers it. Regards, John Ralls > On Dec 21, 2023, at 05:55, Jon Schewe wrote: > > Has anyone filed a bug for this problem of not being able to enter > variables? I'll enter one, but didn't want to double up. When I did a > search I didn't

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions status cannot be changed

2023-12-21 Thread Jon Schewe
Has anyone filed a bug for this problem of not being able to enter variables? I'll enter one, but didn't want to double up. When I did a search I didn't find one, but could be using poor keywords. On Tue, 2023-12-19 at 19:40 -0500, lj wrote: > I am also unable to change the SX status in the SLR di

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions status cannot be changed

2023-12-21 Thread Peter Jackson
Gnucash 5.5 I also have this problem. Peter ___ 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

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions status cannot be changed

2023-12-19 Thread lj
I am also unable to change the SX status in the SLR dialog. Using Linux (64 bit), Gnucash-5.5 built from source. Also unable to enter a value for a place-holder in the SX. Double-click on the placeholder, enter a value, press Enter and it reverts to "(Need Value)". Release notes indicate a cha

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions: Monday before the 4th Wednesday

2023-11-01 Thread Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)
Thanks for the suggestion, Kevin. It's an interesting idea, but it looks like it would be more work than I'm doing now. And also ... I could make a mistake in setting the dates manually. With the present scheme -- 4th Wednesday of each month, transaction posts two days early -- at least I can trus

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions: Monday before the 4th Wednesday

2023-11-01 Thread Kevin Buckley via gnucash-user
On Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 at 03:32, Stan Brown wrote: > > Every month, I get a direct deposit two days before the fourth Wednesday > of the month. That's not the same as the third Monday. For example, this > month the fourth Wednesday was 25 October, so the deposit came on > 23 October, wh

Re: [GNC] scheduled transactions: simple or compound interest calculations in

2023-10-22 Thread Adrien Monteleone
See my reply in the thread titled "I need basic help" made today that gives an overview of Debits & Credits. Your splits in that transaction should be something like: Dr. Assets:Deposit Account (amount = cash + interest) Cr. Assets:Cash Cr. Income:Interest (These are just general names, us

Re: [GNC] scheduled transactions: simple or compound interest calculations in

2023-10-22 Thread Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)
On 2023-10-22 13:36, Name Same wrote: > One thing I note is that in the transaction template, I had to show > a debit action into the bank account, and a credit action from > Income:interest to keep the sheet balanced. Is that the right thing to do? Absolutely. Debits must balance credits in every

Re: [GNC] scheduled transactions: simple or compound interest calculations in

2023-10-22 Thread Name Same
Hi Adrien, Thanks for the reply, I figured out how to use the formula system with scheduled transactions with some trial-and-error. I tried both a simple formula like 1000*4/100 for a recurring fixed 4% deposit, and a compounding formula, like: computeInterestIncrement( 1000.00 : 0.4 : 12 : i ) w

Re: [GNC] scheduled transactions: simple or compound interest calculations in

2023-10-22 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I could be misunderstanding the desired goal. Do you want the interest portion to be calculated on the immediate deposit or on the entire account balance? If the immediate deposit, you would simply add a split for the interest and indicate the amount. (since it is fixed, the rate is irrelevan

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions

2023-10-13 Thread Anna Scott
I think I figured it out - set weekly for every four weeks. Duh. Sent from my iPad > On Oct 12, 2023, at 14:43, Anna Scott wrote: > > Hello all - first of all I’m a MacBook Pro user on GNC version 5.3 - I’m a > newbie setting up scheduled transactions for the first time. I have a few > that

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions

2023-06-08 Thread Gyle McCollam
Stan, see the attached screenshot. You will notice the middle columns have no headings. As you tab through the fields to enter: number, description (payee or your description), you will notice that the middle column then says account. if you click in the space you will see the dropdown arrow

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions

2023-06-08 Thread David H
Stan, Please also advise OS and version and what version of Gnucash you are using when you post a query as things change from version to version. Have you found the wiki entry relating to Scheduled Txns - https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Scheduled_Transactions ? You might find it easier initially t

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions Window Sorting

2023-01-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
As for the SX list on the SX tab, I did get it to stick after an exit and restart, best I can tell. But I have a very short list (5) and one of those is inactive. I'm not sure what the reference was towards 'still open windows' as the sort order didn't magically change if I clicked on a differ

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions Window Sorting

2023-01-28 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
I think you meant to address this to me. I'm not really sure why you're bringing up the SLR dialog. Are you suggesting that the sort order for that dialog is going to affect how the editor window sorts? That would be a strange behavior indeed. Regardless, the dialog has no sorting capabilitie

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions Window Sorting

2023-01-27 Thread David Carlson
Adrien M, Are you able to sort transactions in the Since Last Run dialog as well as in the Scheduled Transactions Editor? Are they still sorted the same way the next time that you open the Scheduled Transactions Editor? I think there may be some confusion about when the stickiness arises. I thi

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions Window Sorting

2023-01-15 Thread John Layman
I'm running 4.13 on Windows 10 and can tell you that sort order is 'sticky' only if you are sorting on one of the two occurrence columns. It's a calendar-oriented feature, so I can't say I consider that an oversight. -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of David T. via gnuca

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions Window Sorting

2023-01-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I find it is sticky regardless of the column used for sorting. I've tested each one, close and reopened the tab, and also closed and reopened the app entirely. 4.13 on MacOS Monterey. - I wonder if this is related to the sticky sorting in register problem some others are seeing? Are the

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions Window Sorting

2023-01-14 Thread David Carlson
David, I would wait for a reply from one of the more active developers. I do agree with your sentiments. On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 8:32 AM David T. via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Well, thanks for the confirmation. > > I disagree with the conclusion, though. Based on your re

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions Window Sorting

2023-01-14 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Well, thanks for the confirmation. I disagree with the conclusion, though. Based on your reasoning, registers should only save a chronological sort; thankfully, they allow other sort orders for users who prefer them. ⁣David T. ​ On Jan 14, 2023, 4:15 PM, at 4:15 PM, John Layman wrote: >I'm

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions Question

2023-01-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I seem to recall having done that once or twice too! Regards, Adrien On 1/14/23 12:37 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: Thanks. I did a little testing, trying both your suggestion and Stan's. Both seemed to have the same result: I was only prompted once. I suspect that "formula-izing" the

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions Question

2023-01-13 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Thanks. I did a little testing, trying both your suggestion and Stan's. Both seemed to have the same result: I was only prompted once. I suspect that "formula-izing" the transaction doesn't materially change anything here. In retrospect, I suspect user error in the first place. I now believe th

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions Question

2023-01-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I had the same problem and I think I solved it by making all of the variables part of a formula, so your transaction would look like: DB Checking TOTALAMT*1 CR Asset TOTALAMT*1 CR Income A TOTALAMT*1 DB Income B TOTALAMT*1 Regards, Adrien On 1/13/23 10:48 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions Question

2023-01-13 Thread Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19)
That may have been me. I'm running 2.6.19, and I could swear that I tried a scheduled transaction over a year ago, and I got prompted multiple times. When I posted about that again a few days ago, I tried again and found that I had misinterpreted what I was seeing on screen. In fact, GC was simply

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions Question

2023-01-13 Thread David Carlson
I do recall this same issue came up in another thread and I thought there was already a solution mentioned, but it is really difficult to search for it on a phone . Perhaps someone else remembers where to find it? On Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 12:52 PM David Carlson wrote: > Never mind, I can't read y

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions Question

2023-01-13 Thread David Carlson
Never mind, I can't read your whole message at once on my phone On Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 12:50 PM David Carlson wrote: > David, > > Which version of GnuCash are you using? > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 10:49 AM David T. via gnucash-user < > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Gnucash 4.13 W

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions Question

2023-01-13 Thread David Carlson
David, Which version of GnuCash are you using? On Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 10:49 AM David T. via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Gnucash 4.13 Windows 10. Long time user. > > I am trying out using a variable in a scheduled transaction for the > first time, and it's not behavin

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions

2023-01-05 Thread John Layman
alf Of David H Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 5:20 PM To: Tommy Trussell Cc: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org; adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net Subject: Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions Tommy, My workflow is somewhat different but I find it gives me a good handle on upcoming transactions and account bal

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions

2023-01-05 Thread R Losey
The biggest "variable" I need that I haven't been able to do is that I want a check to "use the next check number" - I haven't been able to figure out how to make that happen. I assume that using "amt" (without quotes) for the amount stops things because the amount should be numerical. On Thu, J

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions

2023-01-05 Thread Tommy Trussell
When I use scheduled transactions, I always tell it to let me review all the created transactions. This is useful because, as you surmise, it generates the transactions on the dates as scheduled, even if I create them in advance. So, if the Since Last Run druid is prompting me to write a check

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions

2023-01-04 Thread R Losey
Thanks... this may be useful... I hadn't tried that approach. I don't usually have things go too far in advance, but I may try it. I needed this ability recently... I support a charity each year around 01 Jan... but they had a sponsor matching for 3 times the amount that ended 31 Dec, so I needed

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions

2023-01-04 Thread David H
Tommy, My workflow is somewhat different but I find it gives me a good handle on upcoming transactions and account balances... I just set up all of my scheduled transactions to Create automatically and Notify me when created 60 days in advance. This gives me a pretty good idea of what's coming up

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions

2023-01-04 Thread David Carlson
I thought that you put that there to see if anyone was reading!! You outlined a very comprehensive procedure to effectively utilize the somewhat awkward UI of the Since Last Run Druid. On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 3:11 PM Tommy Trussell wrote: > > 15+3=19 days > oops > 18 days for those who can add.

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions

2023-01-04 Thread Tommy Trussell
> 15+3=19 days oops 18 days for those who can add. On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 3:05 PM Tommy Trussell wrote: > I enter scheduled transactions from the future all the time. For example, > when I receive a utility bill or a credit card that will draft my bank > account on the (future) draft date. > > T

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions

2023-01-04 Thread Tommy Trussell
I enter scheduled transactions from the future all the time. For example, when I receive a utility bill or a credit card that will draft my bank account on the (future) draft date. The secret is to use the "Remind in advance" field in scheduled transactions. For my bills, the statement might usual

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions

2023-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Is this just a one-off? I'd just enter the transaction. If it is complicated and you already have an instance in a register, duplicate it. If it hasn't ever occurred, and you don't want to manually enter it, edit to run today, click Actions > Since Last Run to fire it off, then edit to revert

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2022-08-13 Thread Glenn Fowler
Just confirming the nightly works as expected! Upon opening, the scheduled transactions were already there with no user interaction. (bonus: also noticed the links to the various paths in Help > About) On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 4:44 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Ye

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2022-08-13 Thread Tom Veik
Thanks John!  Installed the nightly this morning and did some simple testing.  Seems to be working now. Tom On 8/12/2022 3:11 PM, John Ralls wrote: That was it: The registers weren't refreshed unless the SLR dialog runs and the user clicks OK. I've pushed a fix that will be in tomorrow's nigh

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2022-08-12 Thread Glenn Fowler
Thank you John Ralls for figuring this out! I'll be sure to test the nightly and report back. On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 4:11 PM John Ralls wrote: > That was it: The registers weren't refreshed unless the SLR dialog runs > and the user clicks OK. I've pushed a fix that will be in tomorrow's > night

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2022-08-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yet another example of how awesome the GnuCash team is. Thanks John! Regards, Adrien On 8/12/22 3:11 PM, John Ralls wrote: That was it: The registers weren't refreshed unless the SLR dialog runs and the user clicks OK. I've pushed a fix that will be in tomorrow's nightlies (https://code.gnuca

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2022-08-12 Thread John Ralls
That was it: The registers weren't refreshed unless the SLR dialog runs and the user clicks OK. I've pushed a fix that will be in tomorrow's nightlies (https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint and https://code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak.maint). Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 12, 2022, at 8:4

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2022-08-12 Thread john
That's just the noise from GnuCash not finding perl when deciding whether it should enable online quote retrieval. I have a new hypothesis that I wrote up on bug 794584: That line in the SLR code only runs in the dialog's OK handler, and if you have only automatic-creation SXes that don't requi

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2022-08-11 Thread Tom Veik
The last time this occurred would be the first run on the 10th. Here is the contents of the trace file with the earliest time on that date: * 07:53:46  WARN [gnc_spawn_process_async()] Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute child process (No such file or directory) * 07:53:46 ERROR <> gnc_pr

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2022-08-11 Thread Glenn Fowler
Ok it looks like there are 2 open tickets already: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794584 https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796948 It doesn't look like they are getting any traction... On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 9:05 PM John Ralls wrote: > I'd go with bug: It's supposed to refres

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2022-08-11 Thread John Ralls
I'd go with bug: It's supposed to refresh all of the registers, see https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/41de4cefce621c214c0d6f6ff1c5ca05df8fd917/gnucash/gnome/dialog-sx-since-last-run.c#L1168 You may find in your trace file one or more error messages "suspend counter not zero" from gnc_gui_r

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2022-08-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I thought one was already opened. (but I admit I didn't search for it) If I recall correctly, it has to do with refreshing the register view. This seems to happen with registers that are left open at the last close and which re-open before the Since Last Run dialog fires. Though hitting [Ente

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2022-08-11 Thread Glenn Fowler
I still consider this a bug and not a feature request since not seeing an up-to-date register could really throw things off. To the community and GnuCash team - should I open an issue in Bugzilla? On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 12:02 PM Tom Veik wrote: > Replying to an old thread I found with a search

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2022-08-11 Thread Tom Veik
Replying to an old thread I found with a search. Using GnuCash version 4.11 on Windows 11.  I've been using GnuCash for a few years and very happy with it.  I haven't seen this problem until recently when I switched my scheduled transactions from no automatic entry with reminders, to automatic

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions

2022-04-13 Thread Gyle McCollam
Bone Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 12:06 PM To: gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions On 13 April 2022 at 15:38, Gyle McCollam said: > I have a different question about SX. I had an insurance policy with 10 > payments. Last year's payments are complete and the

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions

2022-04-13 Thread Fred Bone
On 13 April 2022 at 15:38, Gyle McCollam said: > I have a different question about SX. I had an insurance policy with 10 > payments. Last year's payments are complete and the SX show never for the > next scheduled payment. I want to set up a transaction for the next year > without deleting last

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-13 Thread Stan Brown
On 2022-04-12 19:57, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > There might be very good reasons why someone would pause an SX and want > it to fill-in past instances after un-pausing. Testing, troubleshooting, > verifying something, trial scenarios, et cetera come to mind off the top > of my head. Agreed, and

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-13 Thread John Layman
esday, April 12, 2022 12:53 PM To: Dale Alspach Cc: GnuCash-User 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

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I agree, the behavior should not be changed, but perhaps the UI could be improved if people aren't realizing what is going on. Of course, there is a responsibility for the user to learn the software, how it works, and pay attention to things. (such as noticing last run and next occurrence date

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread David Carlson
When you open the scheduled transaction in the transaction editor, you get hit in the face with the listing of the last occurred date under the Occurrences section. I think that pretty obviously suggests that the next occurrence will follow the defined sequence from that date unless it is edited.

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread Stan Brown
On 2022-04-12 11:59, Glenn Fowler wrote: > 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. I wouldn't think that. If I re-enable a scheduled transaction, keeping the or

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread Glenn Fowler
#x27;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 F

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread Stephen M. Butler
e, just change the start date in the one you have. Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: Glenn Fowler Date: 4/12/22 1:03 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Dale Alspach Cc: GnuCash-User Subject: Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug? I'm glad I saw t

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/12/2022 3:07 PM, Dale Alspach wrote: 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". Da

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread Dale Alspach
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

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread Glenn Fowler
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 > Date: 4/12/22 1:03 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: Dale Alspach > Cc: GnuCash-Us

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread Gyle McCollam
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 Date: 4/12/22 1:03 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Dale Alspach Cc: GnuCash-User Subject: Re: [GNC] Sche

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread Glenn Fowler
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

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
This sounds like a good case of not auto-creating them, but rather approving them each time. There are options for this. Regards, Adrien On 4/12/22 9:55 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 di

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
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

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions creating but not posting in register

2022-03-09 Thread dennis adams
John, Have still been unable to get Gnucash to write to Terminal using /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash to open with the variable you provided. Was able to see trace file by following "/var/folders/ms/pc_fwkwn16nds1fhz45ztmphgp/T/gnucash.trace” path in Finder rood directo

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions creating but not posting in register

2022-03-08 Thread smada46
John, I attempted to open GC and having it write to Terminal using /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --logto=stderr. GC opened and SLR showed two Scheduled Transactions (STs) had been created but were not in the register. There was nothing really written to Terminal as shown

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions creating but not posting in register

2022-03-08 Thread David Carlson
I suspected as much. I was giving a generic suggestion so others might find it useful. The behavior is not exactly intuitively obvious to the most casual observer. On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 12:54 PM wrote: > My problem is not SXs being created by mistake, it is that they are being > shown as crea

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions creating but not posting in register

2022-03-08 Thread smada46
My problem is not SXs being created by mistake, it is that they are being shown as created (both in the SLR and SX editor last created box for the SX) but not being populated in the register at all. So seems I may have a bug. Appreciate the help. > On Mar 7, 2022, at 22:24, David Carlson wro

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions creating but not posting in register

2022-03-07 Thread john
> On Mar 7, 2022, at 7:03 PM, smad...@hotmail.com wrote: > > I also opened GnuCash in the Terminal hoping to see what happened when it > opened. Gnucash opened, but I got no output using command: > > open -a Gnucash.app > > Is there something else I need to add to this command to get termin

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions creating but not posting in register

2022-03-07 Thread David Carlson
I did forget to mention a couple of things. If there is only a small number of scheduled transactions being automatically created by mistake, it would probably be easier to just delete them and edit the corresponding SX's, which you probably would need to do anyway if that were your problem. Seco

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions creating but not posting in register

2022-03-07 Thread David Carlson
The screen shot did not make it into the list, but it is normal for the 'Created' message to be greyed out because there is no way for the user to change the status to any of the other settings once the transaction is created. If you really do want to change the status the only way would be to clo

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions - Upcoming Transactions

2022-01-05 Thread Mike Stillingfleet
Ok, so the problem of not seeing all the scheduled transactions has resolved itself by closing GNU down and restarting it. And indeed now I see the pending transactions in January as well as future months. So it appears to have been resolved by switching gnu off and back on. On Wed, Jan 5, 2022

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions - Upcoming Transactions

2022-01-05 Thread David Carlson
Where does it stop working? Do the transactions appear in the Since Last Run window ehen you start the program? On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 6:03 AM Mike Stillingfleet < mikestillingfl...@fastmail.co.uk> wrote: > > Dear All, > > I have recently upgraded to: > > Version: 4.8 > Build ID: 4.8a+(2021-09-2

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions details

2021-11-16 Thread Kalpesh Patel
: [GNC] Scheduled transactions details On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 2:34 PM Kalpesh Patel mailto:kalpesh.pa...@usa.net> > wrote: David, Thank you for that primer appreciate it. Boy was I under huge mis-understanding behind their intent for sure. My understanding of “value” was more aligne

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions details

2021-11-15 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 2:34 PM Kalpesh Patel wrote: > David, > > Thank you for that primer appreciate it. > > Boy was I under huge mis-understanding behind their intent for sure. My > understanding of “value” was more aligned with like value of the > transaction at hand for me, for example like $

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions details

2021-11-04 Thread Kalpesh Patel
. Since I deal only with US Dollars currency, should that be just a value of 1? I reckon that I won’t have any transactions that creates imbalance. From: David Carlson Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2021 12:43 PM To: Kalpesh Patel Cc: Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions details

2021-11-02 Thread David Carlson
I'll take a stab at answering these questions. 1 the value column comes into play when there are accounts valued in more than one currency or security and there is an exchange involved. The most common case is an investment transaction. The Since Last Run 😈 needs manual input to assign an exc

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2021-10-04 Thread David H
John, thanks for the clarification. Cheers David H. On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 at 07:43, John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Oct 4, 2021, at 2:18 PM, David H wrote: > > > > The only thing I'm not sure about is what the difference is between > clicking Cancel and clicking OK on the popup as I get the txns re

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2021-10-04 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 4, 2021, at 2:18 PM, David H wrote: > > The only thing I'm not sure about is what the difference is between clicking > Cancel and clicking OK on the popup as I get the txns regardless :-) Probably because all of your transactions are set to create automatically, so the SLR is just

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2021-10-04 Thread David H
gt;>>>>> > >>>>>>> While there is no requirement to upgrade, and "if it ain't broke, > >>>> don't > >>>>>>> fix it" may apply, if you have a system crash and need to rebuild > >>>> your > >>>>

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2021-10-04 Thread john
t;> >>>>>>>> Do I really need to update? I only use the basis ledgers for >>>> standard >>>>>>>> banking accounts, credit cards, loans, mutual funds; scheduled >>>>>>>> transactions; and basic reports (typically j

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2021-10-04 Thread Glenn Fowler
t;>>> 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. >>> >

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions do not appear in the register until is pressed

2021-10-03 Thread Christina Martin
to a current version you will have available for installing on the new machine. b) Going to a new computer, you will want to be saving ALL of your data (not just gnucash data). If the OS is remaining the same, this is relatively simple. If the OS will be changing (different on the new machine) this will not be

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