Scheduled transactions-need choice of weekend start.

[David T.]

Tommy--

I'm not sure that this should be a bug. Although the Tutorial doesn't say it explicitly, I believe the Scheduled Transaction module is intended to create transactions in the future, not in the past. 

Your question about the version is valid, though. I do not know when the business day shift was added to the Scheduled Transaction editor, but I recall that it was put in relatively recently.


David



________________________________
 From: Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
To: Victius <vic-bw at virginmedia.com> 
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: Scheduled transactions-need choice of weekend start.
 
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Victius <vic-bw at virginmedia.com> wrote:

> The facility to create scheduled transactions seems to assume a new weeks
> starts on a Sunday. This causes problems as a transaction scheduled for a
> Sunday, but actually actioned by a bank on a Friday is not created in
> Gnucash until Sunday. What is needed is for there to be an option to start
> a
> new week on a Sunday or Monday. By setting Monday as the new week would
> then
> allow the Sunday transaction to be created on the last working day of the
> week.
>
>
Greetings -- Which version GnuCash are you using?

I just installed 2.4.10 on this laptop running Ubuntu 12.04, and created a
scheduled transaction to be created on the 29th of the month. (Today is
Saturday September 29th.) I also specified that if the transaction falls on
a weekend to create it on the previous weekday.

Next I chose Actions --> Scheduled Transactions --> Since last run... and
had it create the new transaction. Lo and behold, it created the
transaction for TODAY.

SO the problem isn't specifying a "weekend" more precisely, it's that the
feature doesn't seem to work, at least not in 2.4.10.

I just created bug 685102. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685102

Feel free to add any other relevant information you know of to that bug.


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