I've found the "Prompt for value" option with SXes to be downright annoying.
I go to Gnucash to check the balances in a savings account, and the SX dialog pops up asking me for a dollar amount for my electric bill (and won't seem to let me just click past). Inevitably, I just put in any old number-- defeating the whole purpose of that feature. So, I've opted to have balanced transactions that may be off, which I correct when I reconcile the account. But then, I had to change some figures in one complex SX, and it didn't supply the balancing split. David T. On Jan 11, 2024, 8:17 PM, at 8:17 PM, "Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)" <stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: >On 2024-01-11 12:55, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: >> Long time user working in Windows 10 with Gnucash 4.13. >> >> I have a number of scheduled transactions that I use; one of them >> has multiple splits. With the new year, I needed to update this >> scheduled transaction. I began modifying the amounts on different >> lines of the transaction, and when I got to entering the contra >> account against which all the other splits would balance, I was >> surprised to find that the automatic calculation feature of Gnucash >> registers was not active. I understand that there might be use cases >> in scheduled transactions where one might not want an automatic >> calculation, but is there a way to invoke it without manually adding >> up all the amounts in my head? > >I've noticed that too. I'm not aware of any workaround. (Another >difference is that if you enter an amount with fewer decimal places >that >appropriate for your currency, the SX editor does not fill in zeroes. >They _are_ filled in when the transaction fires.) > >The SX editor doesn't force you to balance the transaction. I haven't >tried this, but why not just leave it unbalanced, and when the >transaction fires you'll have a split for Imbalance. You can then >change >that to the desired account. > >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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
