Batch/scheduled transactions

[Maf. King]

Hi,

on the scheduled tx editor, there is a tab "frequency" - try weekly, and set 
every *2* weeks

that's how to do it in 2.4.x, anyway.  Haven't upgraded to 2.6 yet...

Happy New Year,
Maf.


On Tue 31 December 13 11:14:12 PK wrote:
> I'm new to gnucash and have 3 questions.
> 1) I'm trying to set up what I would call a 'manually run batch
> transaction.' I get paid biweekly, but most bills are monthly, so for the
> majority of the year the first paycheck in the month goes towards some
> subset of the bills and the second paycheck goes towards the other subset.
> The scheduled transactions and splits seem to be close to what I want, but
> I'm not sure it's the best way. If paydays were on the 1st/15th, then the
> scheduled transactions would be perfect, but since it's biweekly, twice a
> year a wrench is thrown into the schedule. I'd like to have three
> 'scheduled' transactions or batch transactions defined (one for the first
> payday, one for the second payday, and one for the extra one that happens
> twice a year), and ideally, I'd have an option to "manually run this
> transaction/batch" depending on what payday it is. Right now I set the
> schedule frequency to be 'none' and when I want to run it I change it to
> frequency 'once', set the date and hit OK and it adds it. The issue I've
> had so far is forgetting to change it back to frequency 'none' and saving
> after adjusting something and it runs the whole thing again. Is there a
> better way to do this?