[GNC] Scheduled Transaction Mystery?

Jean Laroche ripngo at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 17:11:33 EST 2021 

Can you describe how your scheduled trans is setup? x days in advance? 
enter automatically? On the nth of the month or specific date?
Any info to help repro the problem.

Jean

On 2/5/21 2:08 PM, Jack Slater wrote:
> I doubt I can reproduce since I'm sure the dates and settings 
> contribute to the error.  I'm guessing that if I start GnuC now it 
> will be there.  I think the  bug isi in the timing with the date and 
> lead time. My specific actions/results are in my first email.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 4:02 PM Jean Laroche <ripngo at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ripngo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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 <mailto: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 <mailto:derek at ihtfp.com>>
>     >>> To: "Jack Slater" <theilliniguy at gmail.com
>     <mailto:theilliniguy at gmail.com>>
>     >>> Cc: "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.us
>     <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>     <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>     >>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transaction Mystery?
>     >>> Message-ID:
>     >>> <19e311e6378fc91d60db8677af984288.squirrel at mail2.ihtfp.org
>     <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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