[GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 4/12/2022 10:55 AM, Dale Alspach wrote:
> I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months.
> When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start date. I
> was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered transactions
> for all of the months when it was disabled.
> Automatically altering the past seems extremely dangerous. It  seems to me
> a warning should be given or scheduled transactions should only insert
> future transactions.
> Dale

Computers are like that. They obediently do what you tell them to, not 
what you meant to tell them to do.

I suspect you expected some different behavior. That you expected it to 
"remember" that you had disabled the scheduled transfers AT SOME POINT 
IN TIME and you expected that to be "remembered" when you re-enabled the 
transfers. In other words, you expected the disable to have dates 
associated with it << disable from date X to date Y >>

Look at your options when scheduling transactions to see what you should 
have done to get the behavior "scheduled between date X and date Y and 
then from date Z into the future -- hint: that is TWO "schedules"

About "changing the past" -- aren't MOST of the transactions you enter 
after the fact (at a point in time after the transaction has taken place)

Michael D Novack