[GNC] Scheduled Transactions with Securities

[David Carlson]

Now I understand your question .  True, there is no place to enter shares
or price in the SX.  Thus it is assumed that whatever total amount is
calculated by the currency part of a transaction buys or sells as many
shares as calculated by the price that the user manually enters when the
Since. Last Run assistant creates the transaction.   I am not sure if
variables can be added, but since it is possible to build scheduled loan
transactions , that may also be possible in stock transactions.   I have
never tried it.  Historically,  variables in scheduled transactions were so
poorly documented it was hard to imagine how to structure them.  I think
the improved documentation may help with that, but I am way behind with
that part of Gnucash.

On Fri, Jul 3, 2020, 12:59 PM Dale Alspach <alspachde at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is  gnucash 3.6 on Mint 18. If I click Schedule, I get the same
> window as if I had opened the scheduled transaction editor and for the
> template tab I get a template with only 6 columns: Date (Scheduled),
> Num, Description/Notes, Unlabelled (should be Transfer), Tot Debit, Tot
> Credit.
> If I start from the security account, there is a slightly different
> first window (frequency) that opens, but clicking Advanced ends in the
> same place.
>
> Dale
>
> On 7/3/20 12:17 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> > Not sure what you mean by template.  In older releases one could just use
> > an existing stock transaction to copy to a new SX and then, when Since
> Last
> > Run entered it, Gnucash would ask for a price.  Not sure if 3.11 or 4.0
> is
> > different.   I never tried fixing a price in the SX.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 3, 2020, 10:55 AM Adrien Monteleone <
> > adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Does it not have a place to enter anything at all for those?
> >>
> >> In that case, no, even variables would not work.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Adrien
> >>
> >>> On Jul 3, 2020 w27d185, at 10:49 AM, Adrien Monteleone <
> >> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> You should be able to use variables in SX templates. Then it will
> prompt
> >> you for a price.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Adrien
> >>>
> >>>> On Jul 3, 2020 w27d185, at 10:42 AM, Dale Alspach <
> alspachde at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> The template for a scheduled transaction does not allow for shares or
> >>>> share price. When a scheduled transaction includes an account which
> has
> >>>> shares it defaults to $1 price per share. Is there anyway to get it to
> >>>> use something more reasonable such as the last known price?
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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