Scheduled transactions vs. automated entry of transactions...

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Jan 9 01:01:28 CST 2004


This is correct, nobody has yet written the report to do this.  It
wouldn't be too hard to do so, but nobody has stepped up to the
plate.  Are you volunteering?  ;)

-derek

Andrew Tuson <andy at forum.demon.co.uk> writes:

> This is one area in which GNUCash falls down IMHO.  The accounts package I 
> used to use on RISC OS had a simple accounts screen which showed, for each 
> account, what the current balance was today and at a date in the future 
> (which I set to the end of the month) taking in to account all scheduled 
> payments.  The enabled me to see if I could pay, for instance, a credit card 
> bill now and still be able to cover all my standing orders for the rest of 
> the month.  I have not found the way to do this with GNUCash.
>
> Andrew Tuson
>
> On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 12:18 am, Robert Heller wrote:
>> Is there some way to enter a batch of regularly occurring transactions
>> into an account?  The 'Scheduled transactions' does not do what *I* want
>> to do.  I don't want the transactions to be added as they occur, but to
>> add them all *in advance*.  I use GNUCash to create my running spending
>> budget and there are a pile of regular transactions (such as my
>> bi-weekly paycheck, scheduled bill payments, etc.) that I want to
>> pre-enter into the register.  This way I can have a running (future)
>> balance to let me have a handle on where my finances are this week, next
>> week, next month, etc.
>>
>> I guess what I am asking: is there some hook to let me run some sort of
>> script (eg some LISP/Scheme code) to perform various automated tasks?
>>
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