Enter scheduled transactions early

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:06:33 -0400 "Alan Hartless" <harty83 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> > I don't understand. Just enter them early. What do you think prevents you from
> > doing thjis in gnucash?
> >
> > Also, please say which version of gnucash you're using.
> >
> 
> 
> I'm using 2.2.  In MS Money you could right click on a scheduled
> transaction and click enter now or something like that so that you
> wouldn't have to mess with the schedule.  It takes the next scheduled
> transaction, enters it now then schedules the next one based upon the
> scheduled dates in the template
> 
> Normally I do bills on the first of each month so I have the bills
> scheduled for me to deal with on the first.  But this month I need to
> do bills the week before so I want to have these bills entered on the
> 25th.  With MS money, this wasn't a problem.  I just told it to enter
> the scheduled bill now and then continue the rest of the scheduled
> transactions as usual.  With a right click and a click, all was good.
> But with gnucash, I have to manually enter the transaction.  Then on
> the first, go back and either delete the automatically entered
> transactions from my register or tell gnucash to ignore the
> transactions that were not automatically entered.  The other option
> would be to manually change the scheduled transaction templates to be
> entered on the 25th and then after doing bills this one time, go back
> and change them to the first again.  Well when you have 10+ scheduled
> transactions, that is not practical.
> 
> Does that make sense?  Does gnucash do something like this and I'm
> just missing it?  I've seen this feature in most of personal finance
> software including software for the PDA.

What I do with scheduled transactions that get re-scheduled (for
whatever reason) is to let gnucash generate the scheduled transaction
based on its scheduling template and then just change the date on the
generated transaction.  There is no need to mess with the templates,
once they are set up.

> 
> Thanks!
> Alan
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