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

[Tom Route36]

Tommy,

A correction here to my earlier email.  I did create a Bugzilla request; 
but it was actually to allow enabling/disabling of the checkbox in the 
list of scheduled transactions.  However, there is already a Bugzilla 
request from a couple years back asking if an "Enter Now" button could 
be added.  There is limited bandwidth for GnuCash enhancements though 
(actual bugs are a higher priority); so probably plan on sticking with 
our workarounds for now.

Tom


On 4/6/2026 4:25 PM, Tom Route36 wrote:
> 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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