[GNC] Scheduled Transaction Mystery?

[Jean Laroche]

This is very strange, if you could do a simple repro, step by step, I 
could take a look at it.
It definitely looks like a bug.

Jean


On 2/5/21 1:54 PM, Jack Slater wrote:
> 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:
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>>>
>>> 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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