Re: scheduled transactions loose info when entered

On 4/12/2024 9:35 AM, John Pollard wrote:
> On 04/09/24 11:37 AM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>> This has been happening on and off for months.
>>
>> Certain scheduled transactions are correct when view under "edit", but
>> when the transaction is entered and current dollar amount or memo
>> information changed, the category information is lost (the tag remains).
>>
>> So, for example scheduled as:
>>
>> income-rent:maintenance/property:tenant
>>
>> becomes when recorded:
>>
>> property:tenant
> 
> I'm not sure I fully understand what is happening here, but I'll offer a
> couple of thoughts.
> 
> If you are clicking Enter on the scheduled transaction, modifying fields
> in the resulting Edit dialog, then clicking Enter (to enter the
> scheduled transaction in the register: that process consistently fails
> to retain the changes I make on Edit dialog.
> The only way I know to overcome that is to either modify the scheduled
> transaction in Manage Bill and Income Reminders, or Enter the scheduled
> transaction with no changes, then modify it in the account register.
> 
> If that's not your issue, the only approach I can think of is some
> combination of Validate/SuperValidate and deleting/re-entering the
> scheduled transaction.


That is part of the problem.  The other part is that the scheduled 
transaction gets goofed up on some occasions and stays goofed up.