[GNC] How to EASILY Select just ONE Scheduled Transaction to Create?

[Tom Route36]

Patrick,

Thanks for your suggestion and pointing me to that Bugzilla enhancement 
request.  Unfortunately, I think our situations are opposites of each 
other.  In your case, it seems like you're wanting a way of entering a 
transaction immediately when the scheduled date of that transaction is 
sometime in the future.  Basically, when you do an SLR (Since Last Run), 
you don't even see the wanted transaction in the list because you're not 
yet close enough to its scheduled date.  At least that's what I think 
your situation is.

In my case, when I do an SLR I actually have *too many* transactions in 
the list because I'm *past* all their scheduled dates.  And what I end 
up having to do is to change the status of all those extra transactions 
from "To-Create" to "Reminder".  That way only the *one* transaction 
that I want has a "To-Create" status -- and only that *one* transaction 
gets created.

The annoying part for me is that when I do an SLR in that kind of 
situation, I have to change the status of all those extra transactions 
one-by-one so that only the one transaction I need gets created.

Interestingly enough, even though our situations seem to be opposites of 
each other, that one enhancement request you made (Bugzilla # 799314) 
would actually solve the issue for both of us. If the Scheduled 
Transaction Editor had a "Enter Now" button on top (in addition to the 
"Edit" button that's already there), we could just use that to enter the 
one transaction we want immediately, regardless of the current date or 
the dates of the other transactions in the list.

The discouraging part is that your enhancement requests were made back 
in May 2024.  Maybe this kind of mod is either really hard to implement, 
or there's just not enough interest in it.  I'd be curious to know if 
any other folks out there see a need (or at least the usefulness) of 
having an "Enter Now" function on the Scheduled Transaction page.

Tom


On 3/31/2026 6:21 PM, Patrick James via gnucash-user wrote:
> Tom,
>
> I made this suggestion here:
>
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799314
>
> In that enhancement request I wrote, "My current process is changing the number of days to enter the transaction in advance, running SLR, and then resetting the days in advance. If implemented, this enhancement would automate the process."
>
>> On 03/31/2026 4:10 PM PDT Tom Route36<tom.route36 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Let me start by saying this is an admittedly minor usability annoyance
>> -- not even an "issue".  But I'm going to just throw it out here in case
>> anyone else might have an easy workaround for it. Here's the scenario.
>>
>> I get to a point where I have a fairly large number of scheduled
>> transactions due or overdue.  And I want to enter just *one* of those
>> many transactions.  Currently, what I have to do is select Actions ->
>> Scheduled Transactions -> Since Last Run..., which opens up that large
>> list of scheduled transactions.  And most of those scheduled
>> transactions there have a status of "To-Create". But since I only want
>> to enter *one* of those transactions, I have to go thru that long list
>> and change each status from "To-Create" to "Reminder" -- all except for
>> the one that I actually want to create.
>>
>> Let me point out that I know I can enter the transaction manually,
>> possibly by duplicating the previous instance of the transaction. But by
>> doing that I would screw up the entry for that transaction in my full
>> list of Scheduled Transactions.  That is, the Last Occur and Next Occur
>> dates for that scheduled transaction would now be wrong.
>>
>> So here's my question.  Is there a way to create just that *one*
>> scheduled transaction that I want without having to go thru that whole
>> long list of the other transactions to change each of their statuses to
>> "Reminder"?  And keep in mind that I want the Last Occur and Next Occur
>> dates to get updated correctly in my full list of Scheduled
>> Transactions.  Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome here.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
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