Strange Error Message: "Scheduled Transactions with variables cannot be automatically created."
Brian M. Sutin
gnucash at skewray.com
Wed Dec 3 22:45:45 EST 2008
All of the credit/debit cells either are blank or have positive integers.
That is what is so bizarre about the error message. Adding a decimal
separator doesn't help any.
Brian
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:16:17PM -0500, Josh Sled wrote:
> "Brian M. Sutin" <gnucash at skewray.com> writes:
> > When I try to save a new scheduled transaction
> > or modify a previous scheduled transaction, I get a pop-up that says:
> >
> > Scheduled Transactions with variables cannot be automatically created.
> >
> > The first problem with this message is that it is completely uninformative.
> > For even simple transactions that just move a fixed amount from one account
> > to another, I get this message. How do I fix this? At the moment I am
> > unable to create or modify my scheduled transactions.
>
> "automatically created" refers to the "create automatically" checkbox
> being selected. The rest refers to that condition being true while the
> code believes that there is a variable in the credit/debit cells of the
> template transaction. Variables are usually text strings, but it might
> be the case that excess whitespace or some other character ('$',
> perhaps?) is erroneously treated as a variable.
>
> Double check the contents of the debit/credit cells of the template
> transaction to make sure they're just numeric values and the
> locale-appropriate decimal separator.
>
> (Sorry the error message isn't more accessible.)
>
> --
> ...jsled
> http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo ${a}@${b}
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Brian M. Sutin, Ph.D. Space System Engineering and Optical Design
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