If you have "Remind in Advance", it will show up on SLR, and you can select "To-Create" and it will be entered; I don't remember if uses the scheduled date or today's date, but it is pretty easy to just change the date manually this one time. I have an end-of-month transaction that can be early if the 1st is a Sunday or a holiday Monday, and that's what I do.
Also, the date is usually just a rough indication-- you could just forget about it and live with it. On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 1:36 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. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey [email protected] Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ 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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