[GNC] GnuCash: What scheduled transactions can't do

[jhoeter at googlemail.com]

Hi John:

Thanks for the quick response!

I don't need a future exchange rate for my scheduled posting, any exchange
rate will do. So I experimented a little more and it turns out that I CAN
schedule a payment from a non-USD (the primary currency) account after all.
Only when I use the checkbox "create automatically", I always get an error
message: "Scheduled transactions with variables or involving more than one
commodity cannot automatically be created." That now makes sense to me as
GnuCash probably expects me to specify a current exchange rate at the time
of posting. As long as I get a reminder, that's fine. 

Pity that there is no summary report of scheduled transactions. There'd be
plenty of room to add a few more columns (like value, and possibly even the
involved accounts) in the Scheduled Transactions Overview screen. I don't
know how difficult that is, of course, and how many other users would be
interested in that.

Thanks again, Jan

-----Original Message-----
From: john <jralls at ceridwen.us> 
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2023 12:21 PM
To: jhoeter at googlemail.com
Cc: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash: What scheduled transactions can't do



> On Jan 27, 2023, at 6:35 AM, Jan via gnucash-user
<gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi guys:
> 
> 
> 
> I'm still relatively new to GnuCash (after decades of extensive 
> Quicken
> usage) and want to make sure that what two things I couldn't do with 
> GnuCash really can't be done:
> 
> 
> 
> 1.	No option to schedule future transaction if an exchange rate is
> involved - workaround manual transaction (detriment: effort and chance 
> to
> forget)
> 2.	No option to see the value of scheduled transactions in one list or
> report - workaround is clicking into every transaction and then the 
> template tab (detriment: effort and less overview)

If you mean in number 1 that there's no way to specify a future exchange
rate, that's correct. A multi-commodity scheduled transaction will require
you to enter the exchange rate in the Since Last Run dialog.

There is indeed no summary report of scheduled transactions.

Regards,
John Ralls