[GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

[D.]

There is literally nothing that prevents you from simply creating the transaction on the date you want, the old fashioned way-- that is, manually. Autofill will make entry straightforward. 

If, by chance you fail to prevent the normally scheduled transaction from getting created, you simply delete the extra one when you reconcile. I do that all the time. 


-------- Original Message --------
From: Jack Frillman via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Sent: Sun Apr 04 17:56:02 EDT 2021
To: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

I understand.

In the program I switched from using there is an option to commit a 
future scheduled transaction immediately without making any adjustments 
to the calendar. Based on the responses it doesn't look like it can be 
done that easily with GNUCash. Which is okay. I'm just inquiring if its 
possible or not because I didn't see an obvious way of doing it.

As for your suggestion of volunteering to work on the project I may be 
interested in doing that when I complete my current project in next month.

I have been looking for a code writing project since retiring.
What's involved in getting set up?




On 4/4/21 12:49 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> Jack,
>
> You are not the first user that believes the Scheduled Transaction 
> workflow could be improved.  Over the years there have been 
> suggestions for minor improvements to reduce the average number of 
> keystrokes to implement each transaction to radical changes to the 
> entire process.
>
> The existing process works.  If it ain't broke....
>
> There has been no significant change in the last decade, so we are 
> waiting for a volunteer to step up with a good idea and the time to 
> devote to the project.
>
> If you have some time...
>
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 11:26 AM Michael Hendry 
> <hendry.michael at gmail.com <mailto:hendry.michael at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > On 4 Apr 2021, at 15:30, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
>     <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>> wrote:
>     >
>     > That's not what I was trying to do.
>
>     Is this scheduled transaction (Sx) the first of a series (A), or
>     is it part of an existing series which is to be paid earlier than
>     normal? (B)
>
>     If (A): create the Sx with the early start date, and adjust the Sx
>     after that date has past.
>
>     If (B): duplicate last month’s (already created) transaction, and
>     put in the desired date. Adjust the Sx so that its first payment
>     will be next month.
>
>     If neither (A) nor (B) please explain what you are trying to do.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Michael
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