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

[Tom Route36]

Hi Tommy,

Just to help get you caught up with your list reading, I sent a 
follow-up email on April 2nd with my solution/workaround for this 
issue.  Essentially, what I'm doing now is just disabling *all* of my 
scheduled transactions (currently around 50 and growing).  And I'm only 
enabling the *one* scheduled transaction that I'm actually ready for and 
wanting to enter.  Then I go and do the Since Last Run... to enter that 
one transaction.  By doing only one at a time like this I don't need to 
worry about setting unneeded transactions to Postpone or Ignore or 
Reminder.  For me, this is the most straightforward method -- at least 
currently.

To make the re-enabling of the scheduled transactions easier (when I'm 
ready to enter them), I setup an AutoHotkey macro so that I can toggle 
the Enable/Disable status with just a single keystroke. (FYI, clicking 
the checkbox in the list of scheduled transactions doesn't work.)

Also, just FYI, I created a Bugzilla enhancement request to ask for 
adding an "Enter Now" button to the Scheduled Transactions page. That 
way you could just highlight the transaction you want and hit the 
button.  If that gets implemented someday that would actually make 
things a whole lot easier for folks like you and me.

Tom


On 4/6/2026 3:19 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 6:12 PM Tom Route36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     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.
>
> ...
>
>     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"?
>
>
> I just saw this (behind on my list reading!)
>
> It sounds like you use scheduled transactions as heavily as I do -- 
> out of curiosity I just counted, and I have 113. (Not all are still 
> ACTIVE, so it's time to purge a few.)
>
> I think you and I have had the same issue -- I pull up GnuCash to do 
> something "quick" and I have a set of actions that need to happen 
> FIRST, or the transactions depend on another person in the household, 
> so for years I usually have gone through and changed the 'not ready 
> for prime time' transactions to "Reminder."
>
> Unfortunately sometimes there are so many transactions pending, I 
> might miss one, or I accidentally click OK by mistake, so one (or a 
> bunch) get created when I'm not ready to process them. One radical way 
> to recover from a "premature e-transaction situation" ;-) is to quit 
> without saving and restart GnuCash. (This is possible using the 
> "traditional" XML data file and maybe not using the SQL datafile or 
> database backstore.)
>
> For some scheduled transactions I have started using the "Postponed" 
> status. This works exactly as you would hope ... the "Since Last Run" 
> dialog comes up with those transactions still available, but will not 
> progress until you change their status to "To-Create." That way you 
> can easily work your way through them as you (or your household) is ready.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> P.S.: I know some of us use Scheduled Transactions extensively. We 
> could probably beef up the FAQ and/or wiki by describing many more 
> different ways folks can use them. The wiki page is surprisingly 
> short, in my opinion, and the examples ignore "basic" usage, jumping 
> directly to "advanced."
>
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Scheduled_Transactions
>
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