It might be easier to find the previous transaction and duplicate it — which prompts for the new date — and then adjust the next trigger date.
Also not terribly simple though. Paul > On Aug 14, 2025, at 2:36 PM, Tom Route-36 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Gyle, > > I wholeheartedly agree with you -- too many steps. Like I said, it's not > very elegant. As you also suggested, I'd also like to have just a simple > "Enter Now" button. But apparently there's not enough of us interested in > that. > > I checked Bugzilla and found Enhancement Requests for just such a solution > going back as far as April 2014: > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727513. If no one's made an effort > to add that feature in over 11 years, I guess we shouldn't hold our breath. > In the meantime, I at least have this solution that works for me. > > Tom > > >> On 8/14/2025 12:03 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: >> Tom, >> Your solution works fine, but it has too many steps, it would be ideal if >> you could rt-click a scheduled transaction and post with today's date >> instead of multiple changes. The next bast option, as suggested by many, is >> to use autocomplete to enter and when the transaction fires on the correct >> date to select ignore. >> Thank You, >> *Gyle McCollam* >> Gyle McCollam >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>email >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> *From:* gnucash-user <[email protected]> on >> behalf of Tom Route-36 <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Thursday, August 14, 2025 3:39 AM >> *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* Re: [GNC] How to Trigger Immediate Entry of a Scheduled >> Transaction? >> Hi all, >> I appreciate the advice and suggestions from everyone; but I think I >> managed to come up with a solution. It's not very elegant, and I still >> wish there was a simple button that would just do an Enter Now; but this >> procedure I came up with does seem to work. So I thought I'd explain it >> here in case anyone else needs to do something similar. >> There are several options for a Scheduled Transaction that can be >> selected: Enabled, Create automatically, Create in advance, and Remind >> in advance. >> So I started wondering if it might be possible to move up a transaction >> to today by going into my Scheduled Transaction list and simply editing >> the transaction that I needed for today by checking the option box to >> "Create in advance", as well as selecting the proper number of days in >> advance to make it today. Well, once I did that and saved it, all I had >> to do was go and trigger an SLR (Since Last Run). And sure enough the >> transaction got entered and saved in the register where I needed it. >> The only additional things I had to do was to adjust the transaction >> date in the register to give it today's date. And I also needed to go >> back and re-edit the scheduled transaction by unchecking the "Create in >> advance" option box so that the future occurrences of the transaction >> would return to their normally scheduled date. >> Like I said, it's not elegant. But it definitely does work. If anyone >> has questions let me know; but I think I can call this problem solved. >> Tom >>> On 8/13/2025 7:40 PM, David Carlson wrote: >>> Tom, >>> Another way to get one new transaction is to use the autocomplete feature >>> which will clone the previous instance similar to whatever you are >>> currently typing. That always matches the previous transaction, so if >>> there are differences in the new transaction, you would need to change them >>> to complete your new transaction. There are times when one method is >>> better than the other. >>>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM Tom Route-36 <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I should probably clarify my question here. I'm not looking for >>> GnuCash >>> to automatically enter a scheduled transaction for me. What I'm hoping >>> to do is to just select a scheduled transaction from my list of >>> upcoming >>> scheduled transactions -- and then click a button somewhere that will >>> manually enter that one scheduled transaction into the appropriate >>> register today with today's date. >>> In short: Is there a way to manually enter an upcoming scheduled >>> transaction today -- before it's scheduled date? >>> Tom >>>> On 8/13/2025 6:56 PM, Peter West via gnucash-user wrote: >>> > Without having particular knowledge about scheduled transactions >>> myself, I would strongly recommend suggestion 1 over suggestion 2. >>> Don’t tinker with the time and date on your computer. >>> > >>> > — >>> > Peter West >>> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> > `“And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like >>> the sun, and his clothes became white as light.”` >>> > >>> >> On 14 Aug 2025, at 10:50 AM, Liz <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:47:51 -0600 >>> >> Tom Route-36 <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> >>> >>> I have a Scheduled Transaction setup to normally be entered a few >>> >>> days in the future from now. But I want to enter it today >>> instead. >>> >>> How do I trigger that Scheduled Transaction to be entered >>> >>> immediately? I don't see any button or action that will do that. >>> >>> >>> >>> Tom >>> >> >>> >> Two suggestions >>> >> 1. Change the scheduled transaction to fire "a few days ahead". >>> Trigger >>> >> scheduled transactions to run "since last run" or exit and >>> restart >>> >> Gnucash. Check the transaction has fired and change the schedule >>> >> entry to the future required date. >>> >> 2. Disconnect computer from the internet, alter the date on the >>> >> computer. Start Gnucash, ensure transaction is entered, then >>> put the >>> >> computer back to correct date and reconnect to internet as >>> desired. >>> >> >>> >> Both are fudges but could deal with your problem. >>> >> >>> >> Liz >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> gnucash-user mailing list >>> >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user <https:// >> lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user> >>> <https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user <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. >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > gnucash-user mailing list >>> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user <https:// >> lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user> <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. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user <https:// >> lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user> <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. >>> -- >>> David Carlson >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user <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. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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. 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