Scheduled Transactions / Since Last Run: Entry only selected transactions
Jim Passmore
jim at passmore4.com
Sun Jun 21 07:26:11 EDT 2015
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 12:14 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
> wrote:
>
> I am surprised that nobody has responded to this yet.
>
I actually had started a reply, but...
>
> The Since Last Run assistant is somewhat clunky
I'll say! I'm a new user, and was going to give a big +1 to Old Samurai,
but then decided I should pull up GnuCash to verify a statement I had
written was correct, and it was only *then* that I discovered it's possible
to change the state from To-Enter to something else. It's very non-obvious
there's anything to do there. Also, the check-boxes are just begging to be
checked/unchecked, but you have to open the edit dialog to make a change?
Would be nice for the review-created-transactions checkbox to remember last
state rather than always unchecked...
> and there are several
> bug reports and suggestions for improvement that have languished because
> there are limited developer resources and those resources are being
> applied in other areas right now.
Wish I could help. I know some Python and can read/tweak Java, but when it
comes to C I know nothing...
> There are work-arounds for most
> issues which other users have found.
>
> Generally, one work-around is to set a reminder with an early value
> large enough to satisfy your particular requirements for that case.
> Another that I have done in a few cases is to create a bogus transaction
> entry that is created early but serves only as a placeholder until the
> real transaction entry can be created. I do that for utility bills that
> vary each month.
>
Realized that first approach could work, and how reminders work when I saw
that the status could be changed. Seems pretty workable in my opinion.
Would never take the approach of creating a transaction to later correct,
though. Without the scheduled transaction as a reminder I would forget to
go back and correct it!
> In some older versions of GnuCash, the Postpone
> status did not work correctly, and I am not sure whether that has been
> fixed, I never use it.
>
Running ubuntu (xubuntu), soon to be upgraded to 15.04, and I will test
that.
>
>
> If you have any other questions, feel free to ask them here. Other
> users or developers are usually here and able to help. The chat page
> also usually has developers watching. I use that myself from time to
> time. Chatzilla is a nice client for that.
>
>
Probably be checking in on a couple mortgage & budgeting items...
Thanks!
--
*Jim Passmore*
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