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Bug 646591 - "None" option in Frequency Drop Down in Scheduler seems useless
"None" option in Frequency Drop Down in Scheduler seems useless
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Scheduled Transactions
2.4.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Christian Stimming
gnucash-core-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-04-03 03:20 UTC by Paulo Mendonça
Modified: 2018-06-29 22:56 UTC
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Description Paulo Mendonça 2011-04-03 03:20:47 UTC 
The "Make Scheduled Transaction" window shows 6 frequency options: Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Yearly and the "Advanced=>Edit Scheduled Transaction" window shows a different 6 options: None, Once, Daily, Weekly, Semi-monthly, Monthly.
The "Scheduled Transactions" editor only shows the Advanced window.

Shouldn't they be the same?
It seems to me that everything the "Make" window can do the "Edit" window can do also but through different steps (I didn't try all possibilities), but having them similar would make it easier, I believe.

Also, in the "Edit" window the None option is futile because it is equivalent to deleting the scheduled transaction. Did I not understand something or not see a use for it?

Thank you for the very good work.
Comment 1 Geert Janssens 2015-02-10 18:35:43 UTC 
Thank you for reporting this. In the current version of gnucash (2.6.5) the "Make Scheduled Transaction" has been replaced with a "Schedule..." menu option. This will open the same editor as using "Scheduled Transactions", the advanced version from the 2.4.x days.

So concerning the frequency selection there is no difference any more between starting from an existing transaction or starting a new one.

I don't know either why there is a "None" option. I'll keep this bug open specifically for that oddity.
Comment 2 Geert Janssens 2015-02-10 18:41:31 UTC 
Actually I have just come up with a use case of the "None" option: one may have a long running automatically scheduled transaction, but want to suspend it for a number of periods. Setting it temporarily to none would allow one to do so without requiring a complete recreation afterwards.

So I think the option should stay and this report can be closed.

Thank you again for caring about gnucash.
Comment 3 John Ralls 2017-09-24 22:44:10 UTC 
Reassign version to 2.4.x so that individual 2.4 versions can be retired.
Comment 4 John Ralls 2018-06-29 22:56:11 UTC 
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. This bug has been copied to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646591. Please update any external references or bookmarks.