[GNC] Schedule transaction for 2 Wednesday?

[ToddAndMargo]

> 
> On 2023-03-09 21:11, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote:
>   Just posted:
>>
>> RFE: allow for scheduled transitions 2nd weekdays
>> https://bugs.gnucash.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash

> On 2023-03-09 21:19, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote:
>> Hi Stan,
>>
>> If the 1st is a Wednesday, then the 2nd W would be
>> the 8th.
>>
>> But if the 1st was a Thursday, then the second
>> W would be the 13th, so picking the day of the
>> week is not helpful.  So I picked the 14th.
>> Six day late at the worst.
> 
> But why pick a wrong date six times out of seven, when you have the
> ability to pick the right date every time? You quoted my note, but it
> looks like you didn't try the procedure that will give you exactly the
> second Wednesday of the month, every month.  Here it is again, slightly
> edited:
> 
> In the scheduled transaction editor, on the Frequency tab, select
> Frequency: Monthly and Every _1_ months. Then click the drop-down arrow
> for "On the" and scroll, scroll down till you get the options for 1st,
> 2nd, 3rd, 4th occurrence in each month of your chosen day of the week.
> It's a very long list, so you have to scroll pretty far.
> 
> Stan Brown
> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> https://BrownMath.com


On 3/9/23 21:26, Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19) wrote:
 >
 > You might want to remove that. See my reply of a couple of minutes ago.
 > Adrien is very knowledgeable, but in this case I think he missed the 
boat.
 >
 > How do I know this feature is available? Because I use it. My Social
 > Security check comes the 4th Wednesday of each month, and I have a
 > scheduled transaction to record that. (I don't have an end date; instead
 > I just edit the amounts once a year.)
 >
 > It could be that the feature was removed in newer versions of GC, but
 > that seems unlikely to me.


How did you get it to select the 4th Wednesday?