[GNC] Scheduled Transaction Mystery?

[Jack Slater]

Interesting. Sure seems like a bug to me.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 3:38 PM Christina Martin <christina at airgeadstudio.net>
wrote:

> FWIW for about the last 18 months to 2 years, mine will tell me on start
> up
> that it has created x number of scheduled txns. I can see the change in
> value in the register but not the actual txn. They didn't seem to actually
> display until something else happened and I could never figure out what
> the
> something else was. My work around is to start it, allow the scheduled
> txns
> to run, save it and close gnucash. When I reopen, everything is happy. Yes
> it's tiresome but it's working for me. I can't recall if this started
> occurring before the upgrade to 4.xx or not.
>
> Regards,
> Christina
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 16:00:59 -0500
> > From: "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com>
> > To: "Jack Slater" <theilliniguy at gmail.com>
> > Cc: "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.us>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transaction Mystery?
> > Message-ID:
> > <19e311e6378fc91d60db8677af984288.squirrel at mail2.ihtfp.org>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8
> >
> > Do you have the SX set up to notify you on creation?  If not, it could
> > create without telling you.
> >
> > -derek
> >
> >
> > On Thu, February 4, 2021 3:36 pm, Jack Slater wrote:
> >> Started it.
> >>
> >> Last Run Window did pop up and showed nothing. Closed it.
> >>
> >> No variables included.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 2:11 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> >>
> >>> When you say you opened GnuCash, does that mean that you started it? Or
> >>> has it been running since before 2 February and you switched to its
> >>> window?
> >>>
> >>> If the former, when you started it for the first time did the Since
> Last
> >>> Run window come up, what did it say about that transaction, and what
> did
> >>> you do? Does the scheduled transaction have a variable that requires
> >>> user
> >>> input?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> John Ralls
> >>>
> >>>> On Feb 4, 2021, at 10:48 AM, Jack Slater <theilliniguy at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> It should be listed in the register for sure regardless and I have not
> >>>> deleted it.  I simply opened GnuC and looked and its not there.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 12:42 PM Jean Laroche <ripngo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I think if you set it up to create x days in advance, when the
> >>>>> transaction is created, the "last occurrence" is set to the day of
> >>> the
> >>>>> transaction (no to the day it was created). So that would explain why
> >>>>> you see "Last occurrence 2/5/21".
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is it possible that you somehow deleted the occurrence that was
> >>> created?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> J.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 2/4/21 10:19 AM, Jack Slater wrote:
> >>>>>> Today is 2/4/21.
> >>>>>> Transaction scheduled for the 5th of every month.
> >>>>>> Looking at Scheduled Transactions, it reads Last Occurance 2/5/21.
> >>>>>> Transaction options are set to Create Automatically and Create 3
> >>> days
> >>> in
> >>>>>> advance.
> >>>>>> No transaction listed in register.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Seems pretty illogical to me. What am I missing?
> >>>>>> _______________________________________________
>
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