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.
>

This is the method I use. I typically have a 2 or 3 week reminder period on my 
SX's so that they show up early for early processing.

Tim

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