Hi Derek,
I know you're saying that there's no "current_balance()" function; but
there must be something equivalent to that. I haven't looked into the
GnuCash code yet (although I hope to do so eventually); but what
function in the code gets called to display the account balances on the
Accounts tab, as well as in the Balance Sheet reports? There has to be
some function there to pull up those numbers. Does anyone know how
that's being implemented?
Tom
On 12/2/2025 2:22 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
Hi,
Unfortunately there is no "current_balance()" function to show you the
current balance of an account for an SX. Therefore, there is no way to
actually encode the SX to get what you want. The best you could do is
just use a variable, so it would prompt you for the balance when the
transaction gets input/executed.
Hope this helps.
-derek
On Tue, December 2, 2025 4:13 pm, Tom Route36 wrote:
Hi Maf,
I think you understand what it is I'm talking about here. It's
basically just REMINDERS. Whenever I create a Scheduled Transaction I
always leave the Create Automatically option UNCHECKED. Regardless of
whether it's Quicken's Bill Reminders or GnuCash's Scheduled
Transactions, I never let the software automatically enter any
transaction for me. What Quicken had -- and what I'd hope to see in
GnuCash -- is the ability to look at an account (mainly my Checking
account) and see what upcoming payments will need to be made FROM THAT
ACCOUNT. Essentially, I just want to look at my Checking account and
see a list of upcoming Due Dates, Payees, and Amounts Due. That's it.
It's not that complicated. And it IS very useful.
And just for clarification, the Amount Due in that list would simply be
whatever the current balance is for each Payee account -- i.e., what
I've entered into the Payee account register so far as of the current
date. It's NOT any projection or estimate of future transactions. So
it doesn't seem like this would overload the Scheduled Transactions code.
Tom
On 12/2/2025 3:54 AM, Maf. King wrote:
On Tuesday, 2 December 2025 09:58:46 GMT Tom Route36 wrote:
And it's the key piece of
information that's not available for Scheduled Transactions in GnuCash.
Hi Tom,
I'm arriving late to this party....
but..... if such a "balance at date" variable existed....
The sx would fire on schedule, create the transaction using the formula
and the
transaction wouldn't update live as you describe enjoying.
But the Bill Reminders in Quicken are much more
user-friendly and keep the amounts up-to-date in real time; whereas the
amounts for Scheduled Transactions in GnuCash are static and don't show
a true picture of what will be due to each payee as the due date
approaches.
So, you're really asking for "reminder transactions" which contain a
live
variable (not a fixed number) to be added to GC register code to match
what
quicken does. (I admit, does sound useful!)
The SX sub-system is more an "automation macro" for creating regular,
repetitive transactions - once created, txns in the registers don't
change,
regardless if that's one you manually enter or one the Sx system adds
in.
Just get the idea that you're trying to overload something new onto the
Sx
that won't quite scratch your itch!
0.02
Maf.
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