Upcoming schedules

[Jack]

In my case, "show more schedules on the list" goes from showing 6 to  
showing 12, but you are right, it is not controllable to the detail you  
would like.
Filing a wishlist bug is the best way to assure this doesn't get  
forgotten.


On 2024.01.03 18:10, Louis-Philippe Allard via KMyMoney wrote:
>  Changing the "number of days to preview in ledger" is self  
> explanatory, it only changes the number of days to display the  
> upcoming schedules in advance in the ledger, not on the homepage.
> 
> The future payments on the homepage are showing only 6 schedules in  
> which the last is set for 2024-01-05 which is 2 days from now.   
> Clicking the "Show more schedules on the list" shows a lot more  
> schedules (about 100 for me) until 2023-02-03 so its not useful at  
> all.  Its either "too little" or "too much" information.
> 
> If I'm correct there is currently no way to customize the number of  
> days to display future schedules in the homepage.  If so then I'd  
> suggest to add a field in the Options > Home to specify how many days  
> in advance should the program display future schedules in the  
> homepage.
> 
> I would keep the number of days to display future schedules in  
> homepage **totally** separate from the number of days to preview in  
> ledger.
> 
> For me, the former is useful for a quick "at-a-glance" overview of  
> upcoming bills, etc while the latter is useful on a longer time  
> period to observe account balance variations...  
> 
> Quoting Thomas Baumgart via KMyMoney <kmymoney at kde.org>:
> 
>> On Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2024 23:08:24 CET Jack via KMyMoney wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm using master branch, so it may well be different from 5.1.  In  
>>> my
>>> case, Settings/Configure KMyMoney... then select Scheduled  
>>> Transaction
>>> on the left, the last item is Number of days to preview schedules in
>>> the ledger.  Also, at the bottom of that section on the Home View  
>>> is a
>>> link "Show more schedules on the list."
>> 
>> In that regard, the 5.1 branch should not be very much different.
>> 
>>> On 2024.01.03 16:35, Louis-Philippe Allard via KMyMoney wrote:
>>>   No I didn't because its simply named "Payments" on my KMM version,
>>> and I didnt make the connection.  Now I can see the schedules that
>>> are overdue and future, however it seems to display a specific  
>>> number
>>> of upcoming schedules and not for a specific number of days in
>>> advance ....  Missing something?
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the pointer anyways, this is better than what I  
>>> previously
>>> had !
>>> 
>>> Quoting Jack via KMyMoney <kmymoney at kde.org>:
>>> 
>>> On 2024.01.03 15:59, Louis-Philippe Allard via KMyMoney wrote:
>>> Hello list,
>>> 
>>> I am trying to find a way to have kmymoney provide me with a list of
>>> the upcoming schedules (by due date) for a specific number of days
>>> in
>>> advance.
>>> 
>>> For example, I'd like KMM to list all schedules that will be due in
>>> the next 7 days.... Right now I process schedules when they're late
>>> (red exclamation mark) which is OK because I set their due dates a
>>> few days ahead of the real due dates so I dont incur delays in
>>> payments, etc...
>>> 
>>> It would be great to have this function in the home screen of the
>>> program for a quick view of the upcoming schedules.
>>> 
>>> Is there currently a way to more or less do what I am looking to do?
>>> 
>>> I tried the option "Check schedules on startup" and set the number
>>> of
>>> days to 7 but the program is doing nothing.  I tried 14 days and
>>> still nothing.  I restarted KMM to verify if it would do something,
>>> to no avail.
>>> 
>>> I'm currently using kmymoney-5.1-606-linux-gcc-x86_64.AppImage
>>> 
>>> Do you have the Scheduled Payments section enabled for the Home  
>>> View?
>>>   Louis-Philippe Allard
>>> lp.allard.1 at gmail.com
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>>>  
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Thomas Baumgart
>> 
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