[GNC] Scheduled Transaction Posting Order

[Steve Butler]

Other approach is to have the payroll happen the day before (think day of
week) the allowance.

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021, 14:32 Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> wrote:

>
> On 2021-10-01 14:01, Robin Chattopadhyay wrote:
> > Is there a way to control the posting order of scheduled transactions?
> >
> > For example, I have scheduled transaction A that runs every two weeks
> > (payroll) and scheduled transaction B (kids' allowance) that runs every
> > week.
> >
> > For the bank account side of the transaction, it would be nice if the
> > deposit (from transaction A) would appear in the register before the
> > withdrawal (from transaction B).
>
> You can put something in the Num field in the Scheduled Transaction
> Editor. For instance, you could number the deposit as 1 and the
> withdrawal as 2.
>
> That's not terribly satisfactory, since every other week you will have a
> 2 but not a 1, but it's the best I know how to do.
>
> (I'm using GC 2.6.19, but I don't imagine the Scheduled Transaction
> Editor has dropped the Num field in later versions.)
>
> Another possibility is simply to let the transactions appear, and then
> assign numbers to the new posted transactions. GC will display
> transactions in Num order.
>
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