Quicken 2005 - feature removed for no reason

I KNEW there had to be a reason that I shouldn't upgrade to 2005! This would really screw me up too. I'm still having a tough time working around the scheduled transaction functions that they broke on my platform (Mac) between Q98 and Q2004.

It never fails to amaze me at the ignorant, and frequently politically motivate "reasons" that can exist for these so called "improvements" that this company seems to shovel out on a regular basis, and the number of useful features that are broken due to "improvements" made. Especially all of these "silent fixes".

If their marketing department REALLY wanted to know the viability of a new feature, all they would need to do is post an announcement and request for feedback someplace like this forum. There is SO MUCH quality information here from real, devoted users, that the pluses and minuses would become quite evident in short order. The problem is that someone at Intuit would have to go through a lot of data to determine the true impact of what they are trying to do.

Instead, this "feature" was probably suggested by the Marketing manager's wife or something, and someone else said, "why not?", and so off they went and it was done. What a shame.

All transactions are discreet events and must be both implemented and visible as such. This has always been an inherent structure in these types of applications. To try and group any transactions for some perceived convenience in viewing by removing actual events from the view may be desirable in some application but it is still an exception to the rule and should NEVER be implemented in a way that it replaces the rule. It should only exist as an enhancement or add-on. Throwing away or masking a foundation concept (such as discreet transaction tracking) is never a bright idea.

- Jeff

Mike wrote:

If I understand your predicament correctly, I guess as a workaround instead of setting your scheduled transactions to "Automatically Enter", you could set them to "Remind Me". Then the word "(Auto)" in the "Action" column of the Scheduled Transaction List becomes an "Enter" button. Then just click this "Enter" buttom 3 times if you want 3 months of monthly transactions or whenever you want more entered in the register.

I have switched most of my "Automatically Enter" transactions to "Remind Me" because of this since most of my scheduled transactions change in the date and amount each month and I want to be able to click "Enter" when I know (get the bill) the date and amount. The only few I leave on "Automatically Enter" are transactions that are the same amount each month and/or on the same date and I get no warning/bill before they occur. But these are very few (only 3 out of my 25 scheduled transactions).

Not exactly what you want but maybe a workaround?? I too enter some transactions ahead of time and like to use the register (at least my checking account register) for seeing future cash flow. But I only use it for about 3 weeks ahead so I guess I don't mind it the way it is as much as you do. But I do wish they would change the "(Auto)" to an "Enter" button for all scheduled transactions whether they are to be automatically entered or manually confirmed since sometimes/often even with automatically entered transactions we want to manually enter them ahead of time. I used to have most of my transactions set to "Automatically Enter" until I kept wanting to click "Enter" and it wasn't there. So I switched them to "Remind Me".

-- Steve

It works for me. I have no idea why it does for me and not for you. It may depend on the account type or transaction type.

Doug

Steve,

I tried that - it does not work; that was one of the first things I tried. You will not get reminded to enter the next check until the current one is printed.

The only workarounds I have found so far are to change "printed check" to payment or to put the transaction into a group. The group functionality also does not work quite right, though it can work; this is a known bug.