Hi Tommy,
Just to help get you caught up with your list reading, I sent a
follow-up email on April 2nd with my solution/workaround for this
issue. Essentially, what I'm doing now is just disabling *all* of my
scheduled transactions (currently around 50 and growing). And I'm only
enabling the *one* scheduled transaction that I'm actually ready for and
wanting to enter. Then I go and do the Since Last Run... to enter that
one transaction. By doing only one at a time like this I don't need to
worry about setting unneeded transactions to Postpone or Ignore or
Reminder. For me, this is the most straightforward method -- at least
currently.
To make the re-enabling of the scheduled transactions easier (when I'm
ready to enter them), I setup an AutoHotkey macro so that I can toggle
the Enable/Disable status with just a single keystroke. (FYI, clicking
the checkbox in the list of scheduled transactions doesn't work.)
Also, just FYI, I created a Bugzilla enhancement request to ask for
adding an "Enter Now" button to the Scheduled Transactions page. That
way you could just highlight the transaction you want and hit the
button. If that gets implemented someday that would actually make
things a whole lot easier for folks like you and me.
Tom
On 4/6/2026 3:19 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 6:12 PM Tom Route36 <[email protected]> wrote:
I have a fairly large number of scheduled
transactions due or overdue. And I want to enter just *one* of those
many transactions. Currently, what I have to do is select Actions ->
Scheduled Transactions -> Since Last Run..., which opens up that
large
list of scheduled transactions. And most of those scheduled
transactions there have a status of "To-Create". But since I only
want
to enter *one* of those transactions, I have to go thru that long
list
and change each status from "To-Create" to "Reminder" -- all
except for
the one that I actually want to create.
...
So here's my question. Is there a way to create just that *one*
scheduled transaction that I want without having to go thru that
whole
long list of the other transactions to change each of their
statuses to
"Reminder"?
I just saw this (behind on my list reading!)
It sounds like you use scheduled transactions as heavily as I do --
out of curiosity I just counted, and I have 113. (Not all are still
ACTIVE, so it's time to purge a few.)
I think you and I have had the same issue -- I pull up GnuCash to do
something "quick" and I have a set of actions that need to happen
FIRST, or the transactions depend on another person in the household,
so for years I usually have gone through and changed the 'not ready
for prime time' transactions to "Reminder."
Unfortunately sometimes there are so many transactions pending, I
might miss one, or I accidentally click OK by mistake, so one (or a
bunch) get created when I'm not ready to process them. One radical way
to recover from a "premature e-transaction situation" ;-) is to quit
without saving and restart GnuCash. (This is possible using the
"traditional" XML data file and maybe not using the SQL datafile or
database backstore.)
For some scheduled transactions I have started using the "Postponed"
status. This works exactly as you would hope ... the "Since Last Run"
dialog comes up with those transactions still available, but will not
progress until you change their status to "To-Create." That way you
can easily work your way through them as you (or your household) is ready.
Hope that helps.
P.S.: I know some of us use Scheduled Transactions extensively. We
could probably beef up the FAQ and/or wiki by describing many more
different ways folks can use them. The wiki page is surprisingly
short, in my opinion, and the examples ignore "basic" usage, jumping
directly to "advanced."
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Scheduled_Transactions
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