Two of the great things that I like about GnuCash are 1. It allows rigorous adherence to double-entry bookkeeping at whatever level of detail works for the user.
2 It provides tools that are very flexible and adaptable to the user's preferred work methods, sometimes very easily, and sometimes they need some creative adaptation. In the case of scheduled transactions, I always put the word Sched in the number field. That tells me that the transaction need some TLC before I consider it complete, whether it be correcting some values, deciding which bank account to pay the bill out of, or even who to hire to mow the lawn. I schedule some transactions several months early if I need to be sure to have funds in the right place when they come due. David Carlson On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 6:03 PM Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> wrote: > On 7/7/19 12:46 AM, AEG via gnucash-user wrote: > > Having found that the only way to see the future effects of scheduled > > transactions on my account balances is to "Create in advance", I went > > through the tedious process of individually setting all 60+ of my > scheduled > 60!! Wow. > > transactions to create 14 days in advance, then later going through the > > whole process again to change this to 7 days in advance. (A global > setting > > would have saved a lot of time!) > > > So: Edit - Preferences - Scheduled Transactions and set the Create in > Advance # of days didn't work for you? > > > > > Although creating in advance is not a problem for some transactions, > > undesirable consequences with others have persuaded me to abandon this > > feature entirely and rely on AceMoney to provide the information I seek. > (I > > had hoped to discontinue use of AceMoney in favour of GnuCash). The > problem > > I refer to is as follows... > > > > Two of my scheduled transactions, which were set to create 14 days in > > advance, turned out to have errors or lacked information that I wanted to > > enter on those and all future transactions. This meant that, not only > did I > > have to edit the future transactions in Transaction Editor but to also > > individually edit the ones that had already been created. > > > Yup, I make typos also. Easy to fix. A couple of my transactions (one > being the mortgage payment, change every month. Thankfully I get > advanced notice of the real values and can modify the scheduled > transaction before it is created. Missed doing that a couple of times. > My fault. > > > > > If the transactions were just made visible in the account registers but > not > > created, I would have been able to spot the errors and change the > scheduled > > transactions before any of them were created, which is something I can > > easily do in AceMoney. This leaves me wondering how/why others use the > > "Create in Advance" feature because I'm finding it difficult to > understand > > why it exists. > > > Because it works for me for the handful of scheduled transactions that I > have -- most of which don't change or might change once a year. > > If it doesn't fit your style, find something that does. Or jump in and > submit code to add an enhancement. > > Maybe create yourself a spreadsheet, convert to a csv transaction file, > import it. > > > > > Alan > --Steve > > -- > Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM > stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com > kg...@arrl.net > 253-350-0166 > ------------------------------------------- > GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.