[GNC] Misc Newbie Questions

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I've been wanting to do this ever since I started using GnuCash a couple of
years ago and hadn't found the way to do it, so thank you for the
description. Having to enter the advance time period in individual scheduled
transaction is tedious, however, and I had hoped that the setting in the
Preferences menu item would provide global control, but it doesn't seem to
do so.

I've been managing my finances with AceMoney for many years and like the way
future scheduled transactions can be made visible in all accounts via a
global setting. This makes it very easy to turn that visibility on or off
from a simple menu setting and to set how far in advance they would be
shown. Also, the future transactions are greyed out so that, although
visible, they are not easily confused with present entries, but they can be
manually brought forward, edited and made current via a simple right-click
menu.

I would like to see a similar feature in GnuCash.

Alan



Bert Riding wrote
> On Wed, 29 May 2019 10:04:15 +1000
> "Peter088" <

> Peter088@

> > wrote:
> 
>> 1)      How can you enter a scheduled transaction before it's due
>> date? (Used to check cash flow)
> 
> When setting up a scheduled transaction (or later, by editing it) you
> can choose how far in advance to trigger the transaction.  For
> instance, if you want the month's scheduled entries to all show up on
> the 1st of the month, set up the things scheduled for the 5th to
> trigger five days in advance, the things scheduled for the 20th to
> trigger 20 days in advance, and so on.  Then run Actions -->Scheduled
> Transactions-->Since Last Run..., any time after midnight, to create the
> entries for the month.  For variable transactions you can estimate the
> amount to a close approximation, easily corrected when you get the bill.
> A thick blue line will separate past from future in the register.
> There is great flexibility in how far in advance you want to enter any
> scheduled transaction.
> 
> -- 
> Bert Riding





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