Automatic periodic actions

[Dave Peticolas]

Laurent Jacques writes:
> > Now that the archives are back up, could you point us to the patch
> > in question? I'm having trouble finding it.
> 
> Ok, I have found it now.
> But In fact (my memory was not so good) no script/patch was given.
> 
> The message is the followwing
> 	http://www.gnumatic.com/pipermail/gnucash-user/2001-April/001187.html
> or in plain text:
> ===
> >>>>> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:50:06 -0500, Chris Moewes-Bystrom 
> <cmoewes@fanbuzz.com> said:
> 
> Chris> Is there a way to add an entry at the command line like
>  >> gnucash --add "Paycheck" "Checking Account" "Pay Check" "Income"
>  Chris> Even this would be great as then you could write a simple
>  Chris> program to create gnucash crontab entries.
> 
> I've seen a partially finished script to do this.  The person working
> on it is planning on posting it to this list when he's done.
> 
> Jim
> 
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> ===
> 
> Have you some new informations about this script ? 
> Anyway, for which GnuCash version (1.8 ?) could you expect an included  
> "scheduled tasks" tools ?
> Thanks,

I believe Jeremy Collings was working on that script. I'm not sure
if he is finished with it or not.

I think scheduled transactions will definitely be in 1.8, or whatever
the stable version after 1.6 is called. Joshua Sled is getting close
to a version of scheduled transactions that should go into CVS shortly
after 1.6 is released.


> L. Jacques.
> P.S. Gnucash is for me very powerfull. I prefer it to my old tools MsMoney. 
> Good job.

Thanks!

dave