[GNC] Scheduled Transaction Posting Order

Robin Chattopadhyay robinraymn at gmail.com
Fri Oct 1 19:29:11 EDT 2021


Oh, right. Duh!

I used to have the allowance post on Saturday (payroll on Friday). Some
time ago, I changed it so they both post on Friday. Now, I remember why I
had it set up the way I did.

Robin

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:40 PM Steve Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:

> 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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