Scheduled Transactions Question

[Derek Atkins]

"David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:

> Thanks Derek. Yes, I did have balanced entries. That was the confusion. At
> least you corroborate that it is confused. Is there any logic to the weirdness
> that can be noted in the documentation?

Unfortunately I do not know what happens under the covers in that
section of the code.

Sorry.

-derek

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> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> To: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Users Gnucash <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 8:24 AM
> Subject: Re: Scheduled Transactions Question
>
> "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> I have a scheduled transaction for my mortgage that uses formulae to
>> calculate the amounts of the principle and interest on the
>> payment. However, in addition to this, my bank charges a $1
>> transaction fee for automatically making the payment. Every time I try
>> to add this payment amount to the scheduled transaction, however,
>> Gnucash tells me: "The Scheduled Transaction Editor cannot
>> automatically balance this transaction. Should it still be entered?" I
>> do not know what to answer to this question, and so I always say No.
>
> Are you sure you added 1 to both the debits and credits?  If so, just
> say Yes.  GnuCash's validation algorithms are.... weird.  And it often
> can't validate correct formulae.
>
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> -derek
>
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available