GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 460989
Option to enter scheduled transactions early
Last modified: 2018-06-29 21:44:22 UTC
I'm using 2.2. In MS Money you could right click on a scheduled transaction and click enter now or something like that so that you wouldn't have to mess with the schedule. It takes the next scheduled transaction, enters it now then schedules the next one based upon the scheduled dates in the template Normally I do bills on the first of each month so I have the bills scheduled for me to deal with on the first. But this month I need to do bills the week before so I want to have these bills entered on the 25th. With MS money, this wasn't a problem. I just told it to enter the scheduled bill now and then continue the rest of the scheduled transactions as usual. With a right click and a click, all was good. But with gnucash, I have to manually enter the transaction. Then on the first, go back and either delete the automatically entered transactions from my register or tell gnucash to ignore the transactions that were not automatically entered. The other option would be to manually change the scheduled transaction templates to be entered on the 25th and then after doing bills this one time, go back and change them to the first again. Well when you have 10+ scheduled transactions, that is not practical. See http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2007-July/021205.html for mailing list thread.
Yup. Either in the SX list ("create now") or in the Since-Last-Run dialog ("let's pretend it's next week") would be great enhancements.
Same request A scheduled transaction occurs each (month/days/year...) but not always precisely. The possibility to force occurence seems to me as a "must-have". I notice that in version 2.2.1 you can select (delayed, ignored, ...) in "since last exec" window, for me this feature is really annoying because i have to select most of the time "delayed". In comparison with quicken 2000 (which i'am still using) : 1- you have a list of transactions ordered by occurence date 2- you double click to open a popup (that allow you to adjust date and amount) 3- you click OK
*** Bug 503467 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thank you for taking the time to explain your enhancement request. The described enhancement is a good proposal and would be an advantage for the software. However, as a volunteer-driven project with limited resources, the GnuCash developers have their own priorities about the features which are most likely being worked on in the near future. In that sense, the current GnuCash developers decided not to work on your proposed feature in the next 4-6 months. In case you would like to have this feature implemented in any case, you have the following option: 1. Start to program in gnucash yourself - see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development . 2. Convince someone who is not yet part of the GnuCash team to join the team and implement your feature. 3. Pay some of the GnuCash developers to implement your feature - ask on the mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org in that case. Thank you very much. Feel free to file other bugs or enhancement requests that you find, though.
*** Bug 551750 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
For what it's worth ... I want this feature as well but having seen (elsewhere) that it was not possible I tried something devious: Working under Windows XP) Close down all applications Start>Settings>Control Panel>Date and Time Set the (system)date to (for my purposes) the end of the month (for other puposes, other date) Run gnuCash, accept the since last run transactions Close gnuCash Reset the syetem date to current Re-open gnuCash It worked (or seemed to) but there may be risks (I saved a copy of my gnuCash file to a removable disk and took it offline before the attempt) I have no idea if this would affect anything else (but closing down applications was a precautaion). As I said, for what it's worth. Eric
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