Scheduled Transactions with Variables

Guitoun guitoun at wanadoo.fr
Fri Apr 11 16:53:11 CDT 2003


Hello, 

About  the credit/debit formulae than can contain variables. 
How can I know which variables to use, what variables are available and
the formulae syntaxe ?

Thank's a lot.


On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 04:12, Josh Sled wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 10:36:12PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> 
> | I am wondering, if I can have the current month (or current month+1) in the 
> | description field in a scheduled transaction, which is recuring e.g. every 
> | month.
> 
> Not in the description field, no.  Only the credit/debit formulae can contain
> variables.
> 
> | I saw in the "Edit Scheduled Transaction" view, in the helper of "Create 
> | Automatically" that there should be no "variables" in the split transactions. 
> | Would a month in the description field be such a variable?
> 
> Perhaps that text should be worded better.  The real problem is with variables
> which don't have known values, and thus require user input ... the code
> cannot create the transaction "automatically" in that case.  For a variable
> like the one you're suggesting [which always has a known value], this would
> not be an issue.
> 
> | Thanks,
> | Rainer
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