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On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 18:02, Josh Sled wrote:<BR>
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>You can use the scheduled transactions in the way you describe.
In the Scheduled Transaction editor, you can specify that you should be
reminded of the transaction X days in advance [where X can be 0].
As well, the template transaction in the editor will accept non-numeric
character strings [such as "amount"] as a /variable/.
When the since-last-run dialog is invoked, it will show the recently
"come-due" transactions, as reminders if configured as such, and allow
you to either defer or create the transaction. If you decide to create
the transaction, it will prompt you to provide a value for the variable
you defined in the template transaction, and create the transaction with
that value substituted in; if only numeric values were used, there won't
be any value-prompting. You can also edit the specific date or modify
the amount on the subsequent review page.
[The template transaction, here, can acutally contain an expression
containing variables. If you have a multi-person or multi-party payment,
for example, you could make the asset-account split debit value "part_a +
part_b + part_c", and the expense-accountsplit credit values "part_a",
"part_b", "part_c". It will prompt you for the three parts, and create
the correct transaction on the books.]
You can do this by either creating a new Scheduled Transaction from scratch,
or by right-clicking on an existing transaction and "schedule..."ing it.
...jsled</I></FONT></PRE>
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I was wondering how that worked. Thanks for posting.<BR>
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Don Henson<BR>
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