Scheduled transactions-need choice of weekend start.

[David T.]

Well, when I am catching up, I either download and import transactions, or key them in myself. 

Regardless, I think your bug report is more of an enhancement request then.


David



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 From: Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
To: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> 
Cc: Victius <vic-bw at virginmedia.com>; "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: Scheduled transactions-need choice of weekend start.
 

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--
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>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. 
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>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.
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>David
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> 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.
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>On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Victius <vic-bw at virginmedia.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>>
>Greetings -- Which version GnuCash are you using?
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>I just
 created bug 685102. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685102
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>Feel free to add any other relevant information you know of to that bug.
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