On Saturday 20 April 2002 02:28 pm, Josh Sled wrote: > On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:16:05AM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote: <snip> > | Quicken called them register transactions if the were actually posted > | to an account, or scheduled transactions. Scheduled transactions could > | be turned into register transactions by right-clicking the transaction > | and chosing to create it. > > I'm not understanding the difference here. Is it that 'register > transactions' are already posted, while 'scheduled transactions' are > strictly in the future? Or that 'register transactions' have a transaction > to post [when due], whereas 'scheduled transactions' are just reminders? >
When I say "register transaction", I mean a transaction that has already been posted to an account. A "scheduled transaction" is in the future. Quicken 5 did not have reminder transactions, you could create a note as a reminder, though, IIRC. I may be screwig up the terminology Qucien used (I haven't used it for over 6 months.) When I try to create some screen prints, I'll re-examine the terminology. > Is this distinction something you/others desire? > > | When I started Quicken, any scheduled transactions due, or past due, > | would display in a dialog and I could create then from that dialog, or > | not, individually. > > So that ["create then [...] individually"] was what I was talking about in > the last mail. Is the granularity: "[don't] create all \"Car Payment\"s" > or is it "[don't] create this, that and this \"Car Payment\"s"? I just > don't know how people expect to use that feature. > Yes. I want to be able to choose NOT to post SX's that are due. I also want to be able to post an SX thet's not due yet. If I'm going on vacation for 2 weeks, I want to be able to pay all the bills that will be coming up over the next 3 weeks, even the SX's that aren't normally due yet. > | From the calendar, new transactions (both register and scheduled) could > | be created by right-clicking the calendar day. I would usually switch to > | the account view to create register transactions, but I'd make scheduled > | transactions from the calendar. > > As I don't understand the difference, this doesn't make a lot of sense. > The register transaction would get posted to the register (account) immediately, the scheduled transaction would be, um, scheduled for the date that I clicked on. Does that help? <snip calendar stuff> > | If it'd help you, I could go through the effort of creating some screen > | shots depicting it. (I assume you can capture screenshots of apps running > | in WINE...). > > I've consciously stayed away from looking at other programs, but I'm > better, now. If you want to go through the effort, I'll look at the pics. > I'll see how much work it'll actually be and if I can squeeze it in this weekend. I'm also working on a kernel compile (trying to get 2.4.18 to work -- it won't ID my NIC for some reason...). If I do it, I'll post the screenshots on my webserver and you can get 'em at your liesure. Tim -- Caldera eWorkstation 3.1, kernel 2.4.9, KDE 3.0 from source, Xfree86 4.1.0 4:00pm up 2:58, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 It's what you learn AFTER you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
