Loan Payments and Advance SX entry

[Derek Atkins]

Roland Roberts <roland at astrofoto.org> writes:

> Roland Roberts wrote:
>> I've been entering my loan transactions "by hand" for the most part.
>> That is, I have them set up as scheduled transactions with fixed
>> splits then correct the splits after I get my statements.  However,
>> I decided to take the plunge and set up my mortgage via the loan
>> druid.
>>
>> After a few false starts, I got it to work so it calculated my next
>> entry correctly.  Then, because I prefer to have my known
>> transactions entered well in advance so I can do an eyeball budget,
>> I changed the SX to automatically create it 60 days in advance.
>> Then I had GC run all SX since the last run.
>> What I discovered is that my next payment for 2009-09-01 was
>> correct, but the one for 2009-10-01 is a duplicate of the 2009-09-01
>> entry.  It looks to me like the loan calculator may be using the run
>> date instead of the effective entry date.  Or maybe I've just set it
>> up wrong and only thought I had it correct.
>>
>> Should it be possible to have scheduled loan payments automatically
>> entered more than one payment cycle in advance?
>
> Bump.  Uhm.  is this a bug, a feature, or what?  Should I file a bug report?

Please check if there is an existing report first, but yes, a report
should be filed on this.

> roland

-derek

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