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

[Kalpesh Patel]

I am wondering why not skip all the customization, and just have the scheduler add a blank vanilla transaction --possibly with static amount -- that you fill it in after it has added the transaction. For yours' truly it never gets the amount ever to agree with actual transaction so I don’t bother with doing fancy stuff with scheduled transactions. And if your reconcile parameters are setup correctly then you can update the transaction during reconciliation as it will match up.

In case it hasn't been answered, scheduler can be manually triggered by going to "Actions" --> "Scheduled Transactions" --> "Since Last Run ...". 

I do agree that scheduled transaction should be entered few days early in the register but it won't be a play if "Present (USD)" total or alike is used in CoA window ...

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Jankowski <geoff.jankowski at me.com> 
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2025 2:24 AM
To: Tom Route-36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] How to Trigger Immediate Entry of a Scheduled Transaction?

Tom

I share your frustration. Scheduled transactions is useful but does not provide for all situations. 

I have long been confused by the “Enter” button on the edit template window which I initially thought would enter the transaction and advance the schedule to the next instance; but it doesn’t. It would be useful if it did but I think all it does is record any changes made to the schedule.  

It seems the only option is to duplicate, amend to current requirements then remember to remove the auto generated entry later (I normally find these during a reconciliation). 



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> On 14 Aug 2025, at 01:48, Tom Route-36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Tom
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