Scheduled Transactions and Payables

[Wm]

Sat, 7 Mar 2015 09:17:33 <1425748653104-4676691.post at n4.nabble.com> 
YeOldHinnerk <HRamthun at gmx.de>

>when I select an account to be Payables (DE: "Offene Verbindlichkeiten"), I
>have some extra fields in the account: Action and Date Due.

The two special Business Account Types
A/Receivable and A/Payable in english
are not intended for direct interaction by the user but rather via the 
Business functions.  See Geert's
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Correcting_Business_Transaction_Mistakes
for why you want to avoid manual alterations.

>Questions:
>- Can I somehow populate these fields also from a scheduled transaction?

yes but you'll just find yourself using the above URL :)  much better to 
use the Duplicate Invoice from within Business.

>- What is the purpose of the Action field?

All makes sense if you use the Business functions. Action will be 
Invoice, Payment, etc.

-- 
Wm...