Scheduled transactions-need choice of weekend start.

[Tommy Trussell]

I just tested again trying to create two transactions on the 29th
(tomorrow) saying in one scheduled transaction to create it the weekday
before, and in the other on the weekday after, and in both cases it created
the transaction for tomorrow (Sunday) rather than on Monday as expected.

I just updated the bug.

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>wrote:

> David--
>
> Thanks for the clarification! I just tested it for NEXT weekend -- I
> created a transaction scheduled to be created on the 6th and on the
> previous weekday, and it created it for the 5th.
>
> I haven't tested it by creating a transaction for today but waiting until
> next week to see what will happen, but I would contend that EVEN IF you are
> creating a transaction in the past, it should always follow the rule --
> because you might be "catching up" after not running GnuCash for a few
> weeks, but you want the transactions created as they SHOULD have been.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 1:35 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Tommy--
>>
>> I'm not sure that this should be a bug. Although the Tutorial doesn't say
>> it explicitly, I believe the Scheduled Transaction module is intended to
>> create transactions in the future, not in the past.
>>
>> Your question about the version is valid, though. I do not know when the
>> business day shift was added to the Scheduled Transaction editor, but I
>> recall that it was put in relatively recently.
>>
>> David
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>> *From:* Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
>> *To:* Victius <vic-bw at virginmedia.com>
>> *Cc:* gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> *Sent:* Saturday, September 29, 2012 10:02 AM
>> *Subject:* Re: Scheduled transactions-need choice of weekend start.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Victius <vic-bw at virginmedia.com> wrote:
>>
>> > The facility to create scheduled transactions seems to assume a new
>> weeks
>> > starts on a Sunday. This causes problems as a transaction scheduled for
>> a
>> > Sunday, but actually actioned by a bank on a Friday is not created in
>> > Gnucash until Sunday. What is needed is for there to be an option to
>> start
>> > a
>> > new week on a Sunday or Monday. By setting Monday as the new week would
>> > then
>> > allow the Sunday transaction to be created on the last working day of
>> the
>> > week.
>> >
>> >
>> Greetings -- Which version GnuCash are you using?
>>
>> I just installed 2.4.10 on this laptop running Ubuntu 12.04, and created a
>> scheduled transaction to be created on the 29th of the month. (Today is
>> Saturday September 29th.) I also specified that if the transaction falls
>> on
>> a weekend to create it on the previous weekday.
>>
>> Next I chose Actions --> Scheduled Transactions --> Since last run... and
>> had it create the new transaction. Lo and behold, it created the
>> transaction for TODAY.
>>
>> SO the problem isn't specifying a "weekend" more precisely, it's that the
>> feature doesn't seem to work, at least not in 2.4.10.
>>
>> I just created bug 685102.
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685102
>>
>> Feel free to add any other relevant information you know of to that bug.
>>
>>
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