Scheduled Payment Problem

[John Layman]

I gave up on the using the mortgage assistant for a loan in progress and
simply scheduled the transaction using hardcoded values for total payment
and escrow, and incorporating 'prin' and 'int' tokens for principal and
interest.  I printed an amortization schedule which I use to replace the
tokens each time the transaction "fires".  Annually, I have to change the
total payment and escrow amounts, and the ST editor warns that it cannot
balance the transaction, but that hasn't interfered with its being
scheduled.

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user-bounces+john.layman=laymanandlayman.com at gnucash.org
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+john.layman=laymanandlayman.com at gnucash.org] On
Behalf Of David T.
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:03 PM
To: John Ralls
Cc: Users Gnucash
Subject: Re: Scheduled Payment Problem

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


________________________________
 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?
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 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
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 
> Can anyone confirm my observations and suggest a fix?
> 

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
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