[GNC] Scheduled Transaction Mystery?

Jean Laroche ripngo at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 21:49:02 EST 2021


For what it's worth, I tried to repro the problem, but failed to. So 
it's probably a bit of a tricky bug :(

J.

On 2/5/21 6:45 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> Adrien, thanks for your comments.  I am a prolific user of SX's, I average
> several per day.  The transaction count would not appear in the SLR dialog
> unless it only counted the ones that had already happened when the dialog
> appeared.  Since most transactions appear only after being approved for
> creation in that dialog, I would expect the number to appear in the
> 'created transactions' window, but I do not recall seeing it there, so I
> see that as part of the mystery.
>
> I do get surprised from time to time, tho.  I just recently noticed that if
> one pauses the mouse pointer over a 'y' letter in the reconciled box the
> reconciliation date flies up.  Nothing happens over other letters in that
> box.  Surprise!
>
> You  are right that I use the XML data format.  Since I count that 'dirty
> file' symbol as important, I would miss it if there were no other way to
> tell if or how many changes had occurred since I last created a backup or
> at least made a discrete file save..
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 8:06 PM Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2/5/21 7:39 PM, David Carlson wrote>
>>> I want to start with "... 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."
>>>
>>> Where does GnuCash display that number?  I have never seen such a summary
>>> transaction count or noticed an updated running total for any account in
>>> any of the places that I might think to look for these changes.
>>> Admittedly, I am currently still using release 3.8 in Ubuntu 20.04  Do I
>>> simply not know where to look?
>> The Since Last Run Dialog perhaps? I'm not certain, I don't have any to
>> fire for a spell.
>>> The main thing that I do see consistently is the appearance of the
>> asterisk
>>> in front of the filename in the top banner which is supposed to mean that
>>> GnuCash has done something that can be 'Saved".  When that asterisk
>> appears
>>> after opening a file but before I have manually made any entries I assume
>>> that the Since Last Run wizard did something.
>> An artifact of the XML backend. Anyone using a db backend won't see that
>> because changes are committed right away, there is no separate save
>> procedure.
>>
>>     I have never intentionally
>>> configured any scheduled transaction to be created without a
>> notification,
>>> but now and then the asterisk will appear without any Since Last Run
>> dialog
>>> window appearing or any created transaction appearing in a results
>> window.
>>> I believe that in trying to track that down I have even tried closing the
>>> program without saving and seeing the warning that some change will be
>>> lost, and if I proceed, the next time I start the program, the asterisk
>>> will again spontaneously appear without any of the other artifacts.
>> I'm pretty sure Since Last Run only fires on start up. I found that out
>> after some time once I moved to MacOS and never shut GnuCash down. I
>> don't get the SXs to fire unless I manually run the dialog, or do a
>> restart of GnuCash.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>>
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