Scheduled transactions

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Thu Feb 27 12:53:10 EST 2014


On Feb 27, 2014, at 8:10 AM, Steve <zephod at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> Following on from the Speeding up GnuCash thread
> 
> ---- John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote: 
> 8>< ---snip----
> you can just leave GnuCash running most of the time and avoid the load time, assuming that your usage doesn't bump up against any of those corner cases... but if it does, that could be good, too, because then we'd know about that corner case and could fix it.
> 
> How does leaving GC running all the time affect scheduled transactions? 
> My experience has been that it ignores them but that could be because of my settings.
> IIRC, I checked a box that said to get user confirmation before posting the scheduled transaction.
> In my example, I have a number of transactions that move cash from a main bank account to sereral sub-accounts every 2nd Sunday.
> If I start GC on Sunday, everything works as expected, i.e. I get a pop-up window asking me to confirm the transactions and when I do the transactions are posted.
> If I start GC on Saturday, I never get the pop-up window. Is this expected behaviour? I'm running 2.4.??? on CentOS 6.

You can run Actions>Scheduled Transactions>Since Last Run by hand. It's otherwise run only at startup.

Regards,
John Ralls


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