Trying to create a 24-weekly Scheduled Transaction

[prl]

I'm unclear what you want to do - if it's a transaction that happens 
exactly once every 24 weeks (or any number of weeks), then you need to 
specify which day of the week. Isn't it possible to tell what day the 
transaction would happen on?

If the transaction will occur on any day of the week it falls due, just 
set up the transaction so it is entered for the earliest day that it 
could occur. That will give a conservative view of your available 
balance. You can then correct the transaction date after it has 
occurred, if you want to.

Is the magazine really always published exactly 13 times a year (in 
which case it's not published exactly every 4 weeks), or is it published 
exactly every 4 weeks, and can in fact be published 14 times some years, 
e.g. on 1 Jan and then later on 31 Dec?

I have regular 2-week transactions (always on the same day of the week) 
and they work just fine. They're important ones - the days I get paid :)

Peter

On 2/05/13 15:06, Michael Hendry wrote:
> I subscribe to a magazine which is published thirteen times a year, but whose subscription is paid by direct debit every six issues (i.e. every 24 weeks).
>
> When I try to set up this transaction, with a frequency of Weekly, every 24 weeks starting on 6th June 2013 and lasting forever, I'm told "You have attempted to set up a Scheduled Transaction which will never run. Do you really want to do this?".
>
> I've worked around this by selecting "Monday" as the day of the week for the transaction, but this means that the date will be wrong for six transactions in every seven.
>
> I did try selecting all seven days, but it looks as though this will set up a run of seven consecutive daily transactions every 24 weeks.
>
> I can tolerate having a relatively small transaction appearing up to six days late, using the work-around above, but I don't think I should be forced to do so - am I missing something here?
>
> Michael
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