[GNC] Scheduled Transactions Question

[Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19)]

That may have been me. I'm running 2.6.19, and I could swear that I
tried a scheduled transaction over a year ago, and I got prompted
multiple times.

When I posted about that again a few days ago, I tried again and found
that I had misinterpreted what I was seeing on screen. In fact, GC was
simply putting up the one and only prompt again because after entering
the amount I clicked OK instead of using Tab to commit the amount.

David T,
After you enter the value of your variable, don't click OK but use Tab
or Enter to commit the amount, and you should get only the one prompt.
You may have to experiment a bit -- it may be that whether you use Tab
or Enter depends on which version of GC you're using.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com

On 2023-01-13 14:33, David Carlson wrote:
> I do recall this same issue came up in another thread and I thought there
> was already a solution mentioned,  but it is really difficult to search for
> it on a phone .
> 
> Perhaps someone else remembers where to find it?

>>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 10:49 AM David T. via gnucash-user <
>>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Gnucash 4.13 Windows 10. Long time user.
>>>>
>>>> I am trying out using a variable in a scheduled transaction for the
>>>> first time, and it's not behaving the way I expect. I am creating a
>>>> multi-entry transaction that transfers a single amount between two pairs
>>>> of accounts. in other words:
>>>>
>>>> DB Checking TOTALAMT
>>>> CR Asset TOTALAMT
>>>> CR Income A TOTALAMT
>>>> DB Income B TOTALAMT
>>>>
>>>> [This is testing out how to create a transaction to track an IRA
>>>> distribution]
>>>>
>>>> I expect GnuCash to prompt me for the TOTALAMT figure once when the
>>>> transaction is created, but GnuCash prompts me for *each* TOTALAMT entry
>>>> in the transaction (i.e., four times). Is there a way to have just one
>>>> request that gets assigned four times?