Strange Error Message: "Scheduled Transactions with variables cannot be automatically created."

[Brian M. Sutin]

The actual code line reads:

   if (((ttVarCount > 0) || multi_commodity) && autocreateState) {
       gnc_warning_dialog(sxed->dialog,
           _("Scheduled Transactions with variables "
          "cannot be automatically created."));
    ...

so this error message is even worse than I thought.  You can get it after using
variables (whatever those are) as well as having a multi_commodity (whatever
that is).  I am not mixing commodities either.  I suppose at this point I need
to start recompiling the code with debug statements?

Brian


On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:16:17PM -0500, Josh Sled wrote:
> "Brian M. Sutin" <gnucash at skewray.com> writes:
> > When I try to save a new scheduled transaction
> > or modify a previous scheduled transaction, I get a pop-up that says:
> >
> >   Scheduled Transactions with variables cannot be automatically created.
> >
> > The first problem with this message is that it is completely uninformative.
> > For even simple transactions that just move a fixed amount from one account
> > to another, I get this message.  How do I fix this?  At the moment I am
> > unable to create or modify my scheduled transactions.
> 
> "automatically created" refers to the "create automatically" checkbox
> being selected. The rest refers to that condition being true while the
> code believes that there is a variable in the credit/debit cells of the
> template transaction. Variables are usually text strings, but it might
> be the case that excess whitespace or some other character ('$',
> perhaps?) is erroneously treated as a variable.
> 
> Double check the contents of the debit/credit cells of the template
> transaction to make sure they're just numeric values and the
> locale-appropriate decimal separator.
> 
> (Sorry the error message isn't more accessible.)
> 
> -- 
> ...jsled
> http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo ${a}@${b}



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