[GNC] How to Trigger Immediate Entry of a Scheduled Transaction?

[Ken Pyzik]

Peter — I may be talking a little out of school here — but logically, why couldn't you just enter the transaction today, and then when the scheduled transaction fires off in a couple of days, just delete the transaction from the register leaving the schedule in tact for the next time it needs to run:?  Am I missing something here or can't that be done?

Ken
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Subject: Re: [GNC] How to Trigger Immediate Entry of a Scheduled Transaction?

Without having particular knowledge about scheduled transactions myself, I would strongly recommend suggestion 1 over suggestion 2. Don’t tinker with the time and date on your computer.

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Peter West
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> On 14 Aug 2025, at 10:50 AM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:47:51 -0600
> Tom Route-36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a Scheduled Transaction setup to normally be entered a few
>> days in the future from now.  But I want to enter it today instead.
>> How do I trigger that Scheduled Transaction to be entered
>> immediately?  I don't see any button or action that will do that.
>>
>> Tom
>
> Two suggestions
> 1. Change the scheduled transaction to fire "a few days ahead". Trigger
>   scheduled transactions to run "since last run" or exit and restart
>   Gnucash. Check the transaction has fired and change the schedule
>   entry to the future required date.
> 2. Disconnect computer from the internet, alter the date on the
>   computer. Start Gnucash, ensure transaction is entered, then put the
>   computer back to correct date and reconnect to internet as desired.
>
> Both are fudges but could deal with your problem.
>
> Liz
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