[GNC] How to Trigger Immediate Entry of a Scheduled Transaction?
R Losey
rlosey at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 16:34:56 EDT 2025
If you have "Remind in Advance", it will show up on SLR, and you can select
"To-Create" and it will be entered; I don't remember if uses the scheduled
date or today's date, but it is pretty easy to just change the date
manually this one time. I have an end-of-month transaction that can be
early if the 1st is a Sunday or a holiday Monday, and that's what I do.
Also, the date is usually just a rough indication-- you could just forget
about it and live with it.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM Tom Route-36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail.com at gnucash.org>
>
> > on behalf of Tom Route-36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com>
> > *Sent:* Thursday, August 14, 2025 3:39 AM
> > *To:* gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > *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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