Future transactions in account totals

Michael Kjorling michael at kjorling.com
Thu Mar 4 03:36:49 CST 2004


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Hello everyone from a new list member and GnuCash user,

I spent several hours last night setting up GnuCash and entering data, and as
soon as I had figured out the basic concepts had no real trouble in doing so.
I must say that I am impressed with the number of features and the simplicity
of use! (Even though I did find one feature I would consider undocumented,
but I will report that separately as appropriate.)

Now, I also added a future transaction, a deposit to one of my accounts that
will take place on the 25th. I cannot use the scheduled transaction feature
for this because I do not know the amount until about three weeks before it,
and it changes from time to time (payment for per-hour contract work). Adding
the transaction did not present a problem, but this future deposit is
included in the main window account total, which is clearly wrong as I see
it. Opening the account shows the proper present balance, but this somewhat
ruins the idea of having the account totals at a glance.

Is there any way to make this configurable (I can see when having future
transactions taken into account - pun not intended - in the total can be
beneficial), or a simple source code patch I can apply to change this
behavior?

Many thanks in advance.

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() Michael Kjörling - michael at kjorling.com - SM0YBY QTH JO89XI ^..^
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