wish: option to add scheduled txn until x months

[Paul White]

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and Homebank 5.3.2.

I find the ability to add transactions for a certain number of days very useful but feel that inputting a specific date would be less time consuming than calculating or guessing how many days in the future my required date actually is.

For example, today is 27th March. I want to add transactions for the next three months but stop before my next pay date on 28th June. Is that 89, 90, 91 days or something else?

Could a third option under 'Scheduled transaction' be added to allow a specific date to be input?

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

The problem to input a dd/mm is that the stop post date will not be rolling any more: I mean after 28th June, you need to remember to change the next date... again. And so you break the feature automation.

Is the 28th a fixed date for your pay ?

And as so, something like:
o Add until 28 of xxx months, and you can set xxx to 3

would suit ?

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Hi Maxime, thank you for your comments.

28th is the first of several dates on which I receive income. What I tend to do is after entering transactions for as many days or months in advance as I require I reset to '0 days' so that no more transactions are added until I decide to post a further batch of transactions. Obviously I don't use this feature as you intended.

But I think your suggestion would work because:

1) Today is 4th April
2) Next pay dates are between 28th April and the end of the month.
3) Transactions up to 28th May would be posted
4) On 1st May transactions up to 28th June would be posted

That is how I have used HomeBank for some time now.

Sounds good!

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

Paul,

Reading again your 2 posts I just wanna check what is required.

this what I understand from the first post:
Do you want to post every 3 month, on 28th, so that:
- whatever date < 28/03, HB post until 28/03
- then on 28/03 and date < 28/06, HB post until 28/06
- then on 28/06 and date < 28/09, HB post until 28/09
- then on 28/09 and date < 28/12, HB post until 28/12
then same next year ?

this is what I may understand from the second post:
- you just post from month to month until 28 of next month (actual behavior)