Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
On 2022-04-12 19:57, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > There might be very good reasons why someone would pause an SX and want > it to fill-in past instances after un-pausing. Testing, troubleshooting, > verifying something, trial scenarios, et cetera come to mind off the top > of my head. Agreed, and also someone might want to create a new SX with a start date in the past. When I was changing my 2011-2017 accounting data from dBASE to GnuCash, I used SX for a number of monthly accruals to reduce the amount of typing I had to do. I could also see creating a stream of transactions in the past if I got an annual bill for some service and realized I'd forgotten to enter the monthly amortization accruals. > I agree, the behavior should not be changed, but perhaps the UI could > be improved if people aren't realizing what is going on. I concur very strongly on the fist point, and somewhat more mildly on the second. :-) -- Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
Note that ticking a box on the 'Scheduled Transactions Since Last Run' panel will create a tab showing any transactions that fire. From there, it's a simple matter to delete any that are extraneous. -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of Glenn Fowler Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 12:53 PM To: Dale Alspach Cc: GnuCash-User Subject: Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug? I'm glad I saw this post as I have a disabled scheduled transaction that I was getting ready to renable myself. I guess the solution would be to delete the recurring and enter a new one. I would have also expected that enabling would start that day time otherwise what would a disable button really be used for if it goes back and enters transactions as if it was never disabled? On Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 10:55 AM Dale Alspach wrote: > I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months. > When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start > date. I was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered > transactions for all of the months when it was disabled. > Automatically altering the past seems extremely dangerous. It seems > to me a warning should be given or scheduled transactions should only > insert future transactions. > Dale > ___ > 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. > ___ 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. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
I agree, the behavior should not be changed, but perhaps the UI could be improved if people aren't realizing what is going on. Of course, there is a responsibility for the user to learn the software, how it works, and pay attention to things. (such as noticing last run and next occurrence dates) It is also a good idea to be familiar with preference settings. There's no reason you *have* to let GnuCash auto-create SXs without telling you. You can request a notification, and you can require that each one gets approved first. (and of course, you can still edit or delete them at any time) I'd say the feature is working as intended. If you want it to 'resume' but not 'catch up' then change the start date. There might be very good reasons why someone would pause an SX and want it to fill-in past instances after un-pausing. Testing, troubleshooting, verifying something, trial scenarios, et cetera come to mind off the top of my head. Regards, Adrien On 4/12/22 4:06 PM, David Carlson wrote: When you open the scheduled transaction in the transaction editor, you get hit in the face with the listing of the last occurred date under the Occurrences section. I think that pretty obviously suggests that the next occurrence will follow the defined sequence from that date unless it is edited. Further, in the Scheduled Transactions list there is a column titled Next Occurrence. I wonder what date is listed there? The most one could ask for is minor updates to the UI to make that even more obvious. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
When you open the scheduled transaction in the transaction editor, you get hit in the face with the listing of the last occurred date under the Occurrences section. I think that pretty obviously suggests that the next occurrence will follow the defined sequence from that date unless it is edited. Further, in the Scheduled Transactions list there is a column titled Next Occurrence. I wonder what date is listed there? The most one could ask for is minor updates to the UI to make that even more obvious. On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 3:45 PM Stan Brown wrote: > On 2022-04-12 11:59, Glenn Fowler wrote: > > However, I do agree with the OP in that you would think the expected > > behavior would be to pause when disabled, and then when reenabled to not > go > > back to prior to that point. > > I wouldn't think that. If I re-enable a scheduled transaction, keeping > the original start date, I would _expect_ it to make up the missed > transactions. > > Just another data point. > > -- > Stan Brown > Tehachapi, CA, USA > https://BrownMath.com > ___ > 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.
Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
On 2022-04-12 11:59, Glenn Fowler wrote: > However, I do agree with the OP in that you would think the expected > behavior would be to pause when disabled, and then when reenabled to not go > back to prior to that point. I wouldn't think that. If I re-enable a scheduled transaction, keeping the original start date, I would _expect_ it to make up the missed transactions. Just another data point. -- Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
I'm sure most users, accountants, and bookkeepers would agree scheduled transactions are *future* transactions. I think that's the issue... developers think as developers instead of thinking as users or accountants. I remember doing beta for an app years ago and my wife found a major bug that engineers completely missed because she saw it from a user point of view. On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 4:17 PM Stephen M. Butler < stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/12/22 11:59, Glenn Fowler wrote: > > Thanks Gyle, that saves some steps. > > However, I do agree with the OP in that you would think the expected > > behavior would be to pause when disabled, and then when reenabled to not > go > > back to prior to that point. > > How far back? How far in the future? That's why there are dates > there. If you want it to start this month, then change the start date. > If next month then enter that date. If last month or two months ago > (because you are late restarting) then that date. > > If all you do is remove the disable flag and you leave the dates as they > were then the application is doing as instructed. > > Many times as a developer I've wished for the DWIM hardware instruction > to be active -- Do What I Mean (and not as I said). > > --Steve > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 1:34 PM Gyle McCollam > wrote: > > > >> > >> You don't have to delete and create a new one, just change the start > date > >> in the one you have. > >> > >> Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone. > >> > >> > >> > >> ---- Original message > >> From: Glenn Fowler > >> Date: 4/12/22 1:03 PM (GMT-05:00) > >> To: Dale Alspach > >> Cc: GnuCash-User > >> Subject: Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug? > >> > >> I'm glad I saw this post as I have a disabled scheduled transaction > that I > >> was getting ready to renable myself. I guess the solution would be to > >> delete the recurring and enter a new one. > >> > >> I would have also expected that enabling would start that day time > >> otherwise what would a disable button really be used for if it goes back > >> and enters transactions as if it was never disabled? > >> > >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 10:55 AM Dale Alspach > wrote: > >> > >>> I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months. > >>> When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start > >> date. I > >>> was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered > transactions > >>> for all of the months when it was disabled. > >>> Automatically altering the past seems extremely dangerous. It seems to > >> me > >>> a warning should be given or scheduled transactions should only insert > >>> future transactions. > >>> Dale > >>> ___ > >>> 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. > >>> > >> ___ > >> 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. > >> > > ___ > > 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. > > > -- > Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM > stephen.m.
Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
On 4/12/22 11:59, Glenn Fowler wrote: Thanks Gyle, that saves some steps. However, I do agree with the OP in that you would think the expected behavior would be to pause when disabled, and then when reenabled to not go back to prior to that point. How far back? How far in the future? That's why there are dates there. If you want it to start this month, then change the start date. If next month then enter that date. If last month or two months ago (because you are late restarting) then that date. If all you do is remove the disable flag and you leave the dates as they were then the application is doing as instructed. Many times as a developer I've wished for the DWIM hardware instruction to be active -- Do What I Mean (and not as I said). --Steve On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 1:34 PM Gyle McCollam wrote: You don't have to delete and create a new one, just change the start date in the one you have. Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: Glenn Fowler Date: 4/12/22 1:03 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Dale Alspach Cc: GnuCash-User Subject: Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug? I'm glad I saw this post as I have a disabled scheduled transaction that I was getting ready to renable myself. I guess the solution would be to delete the recurring and enter a new one. I would have also expected that enabling would start that day time otherwise what would a disable button really be used for if it goes back and enters transactions as if it was never disabled? On Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 10:55 AM Dale Alspach wrote: I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months. When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start date. I was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered transactions for all of the months when it was disabled. Automatically altering the past seems extremely dangerous. It seems to me a warning should be given or scheduled transactions should only insert future transactions. Dale ___ 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. ___ 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. ___ 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. -- 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.
Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
On 4/12/2022 3:07 PM, Dale Alspach wrote: Unless one lives in a science fiction world with time travel available one does not normally *schedule* something to occur in the past. :) If this is kept as a feature then perhaps the name should be changed to "automatic transaction creation tool". Dale The entry of transactions into a journal/ledger is not "real time: Some of the organizations for which I kept books would have very few transactions for most of the year. Just one or two a month (record bank interest, for example). I didn't enter these as they came in but saved up till at least a half dozen or so or perhaps just once before the quarterly board meeting so I could do a Treasurer's report. So ALWAYS in the past. You have confused "when you arranged between some party and your bank to make an automatic periodic payment" (when these real transactions began taking place) and "when you entered this in your books" (by setting up a scheduled transaction in gnucash). To use my "low volume org" for example, might be one date when arranging with national to draw monthly "chapter dues" from the chapter account and these deductions from the bank account occur and some later time when set up in the books. ONE of the organizations I kept books for only met annually and for maybe 10-11 months of the year would have close to zero transaction volume. So books "done" just once a year. Michael D Novack ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
Unless one lives in a science fiction world with time travel available one does not normally *schedule* something to occur in the past. :) If this is kept as a feature then perhaps the name should be changed to "automatic transaction creation tool". Dale On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 11:32 AM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 4/12/2022 10:55 AM, Dale Alspach wrote: > > I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months. > > When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start > date. I > > was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered transactions > > for all of the months when it was disabled. > > Automatically altering the past seems extremely dangerous. It seems to > me > > a warning should be given or scheduled transactions should only insert > > future transactions. > > Dale > > Computers are like that. They obediently do what you tell them to, not > what you meant to tell them to do. > > I suspect you expected some different behavior. That you expected it to > "remember" that you had disabled the scheduled transfers AT SOME POINT > IN TIME and you expected that to be "remembered" when you re-enabled the > transfers. In other words, you expected the disable to have dates > associated with it << disable from date X to date Y >> > > Look at your options when scheduling transactions to see what you should > have done to get the behavior "scheduled between date X and date Y and > then from date Z into the future -- hint: that is TWO "schedules" > > About "changing the past" -- aren't MOST of the transactions you enter > after the fact (at a point in time after the transaction has taken place) > > Michael D Novack > > > ___ > 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. > ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
Thanks Gyle, that saves some steps. However, I do agree with the OP in that you would think the expected behavior would be to pause when disabled, and then when reenabled to not go back to prior to that point. On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 1:34 PM Gyle McCollam wrote: > > > You don't have to delete and create a new one, just change the start date > in the one you have. > > Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone. > > > > Original message > From: Glenn Fowler > Date: 4/12/22 1:03 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: Dale Alspach > Cc: GnuCash-User > Subject: Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug? > > I'm glad I saw this post as I have a disabled scheduled transaction that I > was getting ready to renable myself. I guess the solution would be to > delete the recurring and enter a new one. > > I would have also expected that enabling would start that day time > otherwise what would a disable button really be used for if it goes back > and enters transactions as if it was never disabled? > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 10:55 AM Dale Alspach wrote: > > > I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months. > > When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start > date. I > > was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered transactions > > for all of the months when it was disabled. > > Automatically altering the past seems extremely dangerous. It seems to > me > > a warning should be given or scheduled transactions should only insert > > future transactions. > > Dale > > ___ > > 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. > > > ___ > 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. > ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
You don't have to delete and create a new one, just change the start date in the one you have. Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: Glenn Fowler Date: 4/12/22 1:03 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Dale Alspach Cc: GnuCash-User Subject: Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug? I'm glad I saw this post as I have a disabled scheduled transaction that I was getting ready to renable myself. I guess the solution would be to delete the recurring and enter a new one. I would have also expected that enabling would start that day time otherwise what would a disable button really be used for if it goes back and enters transactions as if it was never disabled? On Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 10:55 AM Dale Alspach wrote: > I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months. > When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start date. I > was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered transactions > for all of the months when it was disabled. > Automatically altering the past seems extremely dangerous. It seems to me > a warning should be given or scheduled transactions should only insert > future transactions. > Dale > ___ > 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. > ___ 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. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
I'm glad I saw this post as I have a disabled scheduled transaction that I was getting ready to renable myself. I guess the solution would be to delete the recurring and enter a new one. I would have also expected that enabling would start that day time otherwise what would a disable button really be used for if it goes back and enters transactions as if it was never disabled? On Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 10:55 AM Dale Alspach wrote: > I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months. > When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start date. I > was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered transactions > for all of the months when it was disabled. > Automatically altering the past seems extremely dangerous. It seems to me > a warning should be given or scheduled transactions should only insert > future transactions. > Dale > ___ > 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. > ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
This sounds like a good case of not auto-creating them, but rather approving them each time. There are options for this. Regards, Adrien On 4/12/22 9:55 AM, Dale Alspach wrote: I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months. When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start date. I was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered transactions for all of the months when it was disabled. Automatically altering the past seems extremely dangerous. It seems to me a warning should be given or scheduled transactions should only insert future transactions. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
On 4/12/2022 10:55 AM, Dale Alspach wrote: I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months. When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start date. I was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered transactions for all of the months when it was disabled. Automatically altering the past seems extremely dangerous. It seems to me a warning should be given or scheduled transactions should only insert future transactions. Dale Computers are like that. They obediently do what you tell them to, not what you meant to tell them to do. I suspect you expected some different behavior. That you expected it to "remember" that you had disabled the scheduled transfers AT SOME POINT IN TIME and you expected that to be "remembered" when you re-enabled the transfers. In other words, you expected the disable to have dates associated with it << disable from date X to date Y >> Look at your options when scheduling transactions to see what you should have done to get the behavior "scheduled between date X and date Y and then from date Z into the future -- hint: that is TWO "schedules" About "changing the past" -- aren't MOST of the transactions you enter after the fact (at a point in time after the transaction has taken place) Michael D Novack ___ 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.
[GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?
I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months. When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start date. I was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered transactions for all of the months when it was disabled. Automatically altering the past seems extremely dangerous. It seems to me a warning should be given or scheduled transactions should only insert future transactions. Dale ___ 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.
