Problem with creating a scheduled transaction with a formula

Tracey C gnucash at tlcnet.info
Sat Apr 18 12:33:16 EDT 2015


Hi,

I'm trying to enter a scheduled transaction for the monthly interest on 
an IRA account. I've right clicked on a previous interest entry and 
clicked on Schedule. Whenever I try to enter what the documentation says 
is the correct formula, I receive an error.


The formula comes from the gnucash documentation (which isn't terribly 
clear but I figured this out):

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Scheduled_Transactions#Bank_Account_Interest


The formula I'm using is this, the error is triggered with the exact 
same text as in the example in the wiki

computeInterestIncrement( 5000.00 : 0.03125 : 12 : i )

"computeInterestIncrement" is the correct formula name, which I 
confirmed in the fin.scm file. (The documentation really could stand to 
point out *where* this file is).


When I click OK on the editor this is the error I receive (where 
Interest account is the text I added in the split):

Couldn't parse credit formula for split "Interest account"

After doing some searching through the web & mailing list archives, I 
didn't find anything useful. There don't appear to be any bugs related 
to this error in bugzilla. Am I doing this right or do I need to do 
something different? Is this a bug? Any help is appreciated.


Thanks,

-- 
Tracey C



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