Enter scheduled transactions early

[Tim Wunder]

On Friday 27 July 2007 11:41:03 am Josh Sled wrote:
> "Alan Hartless" <harty83 at gmail.com> writes:
> > 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
>
> [...]
>
> > 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
>
> You can change the scheduled transactions [SXes] to "remind in advance"
> however many days are appropriate.  In the Since Last Run dialog, they will
> show up as "reminders".  You can choose to "promote" them to "create now",
> for their originally scheduled date.  If that date is not appropriate, you
> can click the "Review created transactions" option, and change the date
> after it's created.
>
> I understand the approach that you're describing.  It would be a nice
> enhancement, and should be pretty easy to add to the current code ...
> either in the SX list ("create now") or in the Since-Last-Run dialog
> ("let's pretend it's next week").  Please file an RFE at
> <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=GnuCash>.  The paragraphs
> from your message are a sufficient report; you might also want to put the
> link
> <http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2007-July/021205.html> in
> the bug for reference.

It'd be even nicer if SX's could be processed from the densecal (I think there 
is an RFE for that in bugzilla) or some alternative calendar view.

Tim

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