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

[Kalpesh Patel]

Not able to see the  amount or the account name in the reminder pop for the
scheduled transaction is a huge bummer for me as well. 

 

I have multiple scheduled transactions to the same institutions on the same
date for different assets and I have to make a note of it in each
transaction's name to discern them differently so they stay sane.  

 

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Message: 4

Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 15:08:49 -0500

From: jhoeter at googlemail.com <mailto:jhoeter at googlemail.com> 

To: "'john'" <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us> >

Cc: <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>
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Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash: What scheduled transactions can't do

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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

 

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From: john <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us> >

Sent: Friday, January 27, 2023 12:21 PM

To: jhoeter at googlemail.com <mailto:jhoeter at googlemail.com> 

Cc: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org <mailto: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 <mailto: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:

> 

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> 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

 

 

 

 

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