Questions about sheduled transactions

[Josh Sled]

Ulrike's recent post suggested I forgot to send this to the list, which
was my original intent:

Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> writes:
> Ulrike Fischer <news2 at nililand.de> writes:
>> I'm currently investigating if I should switch from Quicken to 
>> GnuCash and have some questions about sheduled transactions.
>>
>> I have the following requirements:
>> - They should never be included automatically. I want to trigger the 
>> execution one by one when it fits me. 
>
> Possible.
>
>> - I want to be able to change/adjust the date, the amount and the 
>> transactions of the current instance before including it.
>
> The SX-created transactions can only be edited after creation.
>
>> - I want to be able to skip sometimes one occurence completly. 
>
> Possible; click on the "Status" column in the Since Last Run dialog to
> change from "To-Create" to "Ingored".
>
>> - I want to be able to insert an occurence earlier than the normal 
>> due date.
>
> Only possible if you schedule the SX to "create" or "remind in advance"
> a number of days.
>
>> - I would like a report about the sheduled transactions of e.g. the 
>> next month, (including the amounts). But this is not a must, the 
>> list in the sheduled transactions window is acceptable. 
>
> Not possible.
>
>> - I would like to remove the calender from the due date window to 
>> have more place for the list of transactions.
>
> Not possible, though you can resize that panel area to be smaller.
>
>> Currently I do have the impression (it's a bit difficult to make 
>> tests as I seem not to be able to insert sheduled transactions with 
>> a first due date in the past) 
>
> There should be no problem creating a SX which has a start date in the
> past, then running Since Last Run to create all the instances between
> then and now.

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