Hi John: Thanks for the quick response!
I don't need a future exchange rate for my scheduled posting, any exchange rate will do. So I experimented a little more and it turns out that I CAN schedule a payment from a non-USD (the primary currency) account after all. Only when I use the checkbox "create automatically", I always get an error message: "Scheduled transactions with variables or involving more than one commodity cannot automatically be created." That now makes sense to me as GnuCash probably expects me to specify a current exchange rate at the time of posting. As long as I get a reminder, that's fine. Pity that there is no summary report of scheduled transactions. There'd be plenty of room to add a few more columns (like value, and possibly even the involved accounts) in the Scheduled Transactions Overview screen. I don't know how difficult that is, of course, and how many other users would be interested in that. Thanks again, Jan -----Original Message----- From: john <jra...@ceridwen.us> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2023 12:21 PM To: jhoe...@googlemail.com Cc: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash: What scheduled transactions can't do > On Jan 27, 2023, at 6:35 AM, Jan via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > Hi guys: > > > > I'm still relatively new to GnuCash (after decades of extensive > Quicken > usage) and want to make sure that what two things I couldn't do with > GnuCash really can't be done: > > > > 1. No option to schedule future transaction if an exchange rate is > involved - workaround manual transaction (detriment: effort and chance > to > forget) > 2. No option to see the value of scheduled transactions in one list or > report - workaround is clicking into every transaction and then the > template tab (detriment: effort and less overview) If you mean in number 1 that there's no way to specify a future exchange rate, that's correct. A multi-commodity scheduled transaction will require you to enter the exchange rate in the Since Last Run dialog. There is indeed no summary report of scheduled transactions. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
