[GNC] How to Trigger Immediate Entry of a Scheduled Transaction?
Tom Route-36
tom.route36 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 14 14:35:56 EDT 2025
Hi Gyle,
I wholeheartedly agree with you -- too many steps. Like I said, it's
not very elegant. As you also suggested, I'd also like to have just a
simple "Enter Now" button. But apparently there's not enough of us
interested in that.
I checked Bugzilla and found Enhancement Requests for just such a
solution going back as far as April 2014:
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727513. If no one's made an
effort to add that feature in over 11 years, I guess we shouldn't hold
our breath. In the meantime, I at least have this solution that works
for me.
Tom
On 8/14/2025 12:03 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote:
> Tom,
> Your solution works fine, but it has too many steps, it would be ideal
> if you could rt-click a scheduled transaction and post with today's date
> instead of multiple changes. The next bast option, as suggested by
> many, is to use autocomplete to enter and when the transaction fires on
> the correct date to select ignore.
>
> Thank You,
>
> *Gyle McCollam*
>
> Gyle McCollam
>
> gmccollam at live.com <mailto:gmccollam at gyleshomes.com>email
>
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> *Subject:* Re: [GNC] How to Trigger Immediate Entry of a Scheduled
> Transaction?
> Hi all,
>
> I appreciate the advice and suggestions from everyone; but I think I
> managed to come up with a solution. It's not very elegant, and I still
> wish there was a simple button that would just do an Enter Now; but this
> procedure I came up with does seem to work. So I thought I'd explain it
> here in case anyone else needs to do something similar.
>
> There are several options for a Scheduled Transaction that can be
> selected: Enabled, Create automatically, Create in advance, and Remind
> in advance.
>
> So I started wondering if it might be possible to move up a transaction
> to today by going into my Scheduled Transaction list and simply editing
> the transaction that I needed for today by checking the option box to
> "Create in advance", as well as selecting the proper number of days in
> advance to make it today. Well, once I did that and saved it, all I had
> to do was go and trigger an SLR (Since Last Run). And sure enough the
> transaction got entered and saved in the register where I needed it.
>
> The only additional things I had to do was to adjust the transaction
> date in the register to give it today's date. And I also needed to go
> back and re-edit the scheduled transaction by unchecking the "Create in
> advance" option box so that the future occurrences of the transaction
> would return to their normally scheduled date.
>
> Like I said, it's not elegant. But it definitely does work. If anyone
> has questions let me know; but I think I can call this problem solved.
>
> Tom
>
>
> On 8/13/2025 7:40 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>> Tom,
>>
>> Another way to get one new transaction is to use the autocomplete
>> feature which will clone the previous instance similar to whatever you
>> are currently typing. That always matches the previous transaction, so
>> if there are differences in the new transaction, you would need to
>> change them to complete your new transaction. There are times when one
>> method is better than the other.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM Tom Route-36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:tom.route36 at gmail.com <mailto:tom.route36 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I should probably clarify my question here. I'm not looking for
>> GnuCash
>> to automatically enter a scheduled transaction for me. What I'm hoping
>> to do is to just select a scheduled transaction from my list of
>> upcoming
>> scheduled transactions -- and then click a button somewhere that will
>> manually enter that one scheduled transaction into the appropriate
>> register today with today's date.
>>
>> In short: Is there a way to manually enter an upcoming scheduled
>> transaction today -- before it's scheduled date?
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> On 8/13/2025 6:56 PM, Peter West via gnucash-user wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > —
>> > Peter West
>> > pbw at pbw.id.au <mailto:pbw at pbw.id.au <mailto:pbw at pbw.id.au>>
>> > `“And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like
>> the sun, and his clothes became white as light.”`
>> >
>> >> On 14 Aug 2025, at 10:50 AM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net
>> <mailto:edodd at billiau.net <mailto:edodd at billiau.net>>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:47:51 -0600
>> >> Tom Route-36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:tom.route36 at gmail.com <mailto: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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