[Fwd: Re: scheduled transactions]

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Oct 18 16:41:14 EDT 2005



----- Forwarded message from jsled at asynchronous.org -----
    Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:29:28 -0400
    From: Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org>
Reply-To: Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org>
 Subject: [Fwd: Re: scheduled transactions]
      To: warlord at mit.edu

Can you post this to -user for me?

Thanks...
...jsled

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org>
> To: Chris Allen <ch.allen at ozemail.com.au>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: scheduled transactions
> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:13:56 -0400
>
> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 22:21 +1000, Chris Allen wrote:
> > I want to see the likely balance of an account (credit card or cheque
> > account) at some future date, given its current balance + transactions
> > scheduled between now and then.
> >
> > Can any one advise hoe to do this?
>
> Actions > Scheduled Transactions.
>
> You can configure the Scheduled Transactions [SXes] to be created in
> advance, which will then enter them on the books (Via the Actions >
> Since Last Run... dialog).  As they are, then, actually-entered, real,
> post-dated transactions, the register will show the future balance as if
> you had entered them by hand.
>
> (Ideally, it would treat these transaction specially... you could, for
> example, change the SX and it would remove them all and re-create the
> new set.  While there is sufficient information stored in the data-model
> to do this, the feature does not exist in the application right now.)
>
> ...jsled
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