formulas or scripts for periodic savings

[Andrew Sackville-West]

Josh Sled wrote:
>  <snip>
> 
> ... then gnucash would prompt you for the values of both "earnings" and
> "expenses" when it needs to create the transaction.

wow that's cool
> 
> It was unclear from your example where the 10% and 20% came into the
> computation -- those seemed like your own personal restrictions, not
> really enforced (or enforceable) by gnucash.  But if you wanted to have
> a template transaction with formulae like...
> 
>     account 1 credit: (earnings * 0.10) + (earnings * 0.20) + (earnings * 0.70)
>     account 2 debit:  (earnings * 0.10)
>     account 3 debit:  (earnings * 0.20)
>     account 4 debit:  (earnings * 0.70)
> 
> ...then gnucash would only prompt for the single value "earnings" and
> compute the full transaction from that.
> 
> What it _cannot_ do, however, is sum or obtain the values from existing
> accounts ... so it would not be able to compute "all expenses in the
> last month".

Sounds to me like he needs a simple report or two to provide the values 
for the variables and then key those in to the scheduled transaction.

> 
> ...jsled     
>