Scheduled Payment Problem

[David T.]

John--

Unfortunately, Gnucash won't let me "fix" the SX. Everything I try results in GC not saving the transaction--even setting everything back the way it was originally. Since the SX was created by the mortgage assistant, and I had a bugger of a time getting it set up right in the first place, I'm not sure how I could remedy this.


David


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 From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
To: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> 
Cc: Users Gnucash <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: Scheduled Payment Problem
 

On Dec 28, 2011, at 12:26 PM, David T. wrote:

> I have not heard any replies on this problem. Can anyone advise?
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> From: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> To: Users Gnucash <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:56 PM
> Subject: Scheduled Payment Problem
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> I have a scheduled mortgage payment that no longer seems to schedule. I think it has to do with the fact that the transaction editor thinks the transaction doesn't balance. Some time back, i tried to add an extra fee to the template, but it gave me this error. Derek told me to ignore the error, but it seems that the transaction won't schedule if Gnucash thinks it doesn't balance. The dialog shows this transaction differently than all the rest; there is no expandable triangle under the transaction, and there is no "Reminder" entry in the status column. 
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> Can anyone confirm my observations and suggest a fix?
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I haven't seen the problem myself, but your diagnosis seems reasonable and the cure obvious: Fix the SX so it balances. If that doesn't get it to schedule, look elsewhere... but you don't really want Gnucash posting unbalanced SXes anyway, so fixing it it the right thing to do.

If an unbalanced SX is indeed the problem, you could reasonably file a bug complaining that it shouldn't fail silently (assuming, of course, that there isn't one already.)

Regards,
John Ralls