[GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

[Glenn Fowler]

Thanks Gyle, that saves some steps.
However, I do agree with the OP in that you would think the expected
behavior would be to pause when disabled, and then when reenabled to not go
back to prior to that point.


On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 1:34 PM Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com> wrote:

>
>
> You don't have to delete and create a new one,  just change the start date
> in the one you have.
>
> Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com>
> Date: 4/12/22 1:03 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: Dale Alspach <alspachde at gmail.com>
> Cc: GnuCash-User <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
>
> I'm glad I saw this post as I have a disabled scheduled transaction that I
> was getting ready to renable myself. I guess the solution would be to
> delete the recurring and enter a new one.
>
> I would have also expected that enabling would start that day time
> otherwise what would a disable button really be used for if it goes back
> and enters transactions as if it was never disabled?
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 10:55 AM Dale Alspach <alspachde at gmail.com> 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
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