Scheduled transactions documentation

[Derek Atkins]

I'll just note that there are a LOT of bugs in the Scheduled Transaction
(SX) code.  You have been warned....

-derek

Trevor Barton <tmb at isotek.co.uk> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for docs on how to create scheduled transactions (in
> 1.8.4) but can't seem to find anything other than the brief
> description in the 1.8.1 help files.  Is there anywhere else?
> 
> Specifically, I have two questions, both of which have pretty easy
> workarounds but I'd like to know if I'm missing something.
> 
> There seems to be some mention of "variables" in the "Since last
> run..." druid, but I can't find if that means anything and if it does
> what it means.  I'm hoping that it'll let me enter values for some
> parts of a scheduled transaction and allow other parts to be
> automatically calculated, for example, splits regarding salary where
> tax and other deductions varies each month but the gross remains fixed
> and the amount actually going into the final (bank) account is
> variable.  Am I hoping for the wrong thing here?
> 
> I is possible to set up an SX with an initial payment followed by
> regular payments with a different amount?  That's common for all sorts
> of things here in the UK, where the first payment takes into account
> any odd pennies to make the remaining payments equal and integer
> numbers of pence.
> 
> Also, once a transaction is entered in the SX editor window, a second
> transaction entry field appears.  What's the purpose, if any, of that.
> Can I enter a different transaction in there and have both performed
> at once, for example?
> 
> I think I may have uncovered a bug in the SX mechanism.  I tried
> entereing a transaction that occurs every 4 weeks by calling it an
> automatically entered "weekly" transaction and setting it of a friday
> every 4 weeks.  GnuCash would then hang either exiting the editor
> dialogue box or when it tried to automatically enter the transaction,
> using no CPU, but responding to no mouse or keyboard input.  I worked
> around that by making it a "daily" transaction every 28 days which
> works perfectly.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any information!
> 
> Trev
> 
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> Trevor Barton
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