Bill & Income Reminders, "How Often" list displays "Every 5 years" for some yearly bills.

glacial
glacial Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭

I have several reminders set to "once per year" on a particular date. Some of them correctly show "yearly" in the How Often column, but two show "Every 5 years" even though it displays "once per year" in their Edit Bill Reminder form.

I tried editing the reminders that are wrong to "twice yearly" and saving, which did display that setting correctly in the list. But when I put it back to "once per year" and saved it, it displayed "Every 5 years" again in the list. I don't know yet if it will affect whether the reminder is triggered correctly.

I find it it extra odd since "Every 5 years" isn't an option for the How Often setting.

I don't know when this started.

I just updated to R59.6 prior to noticing this.
Quicken Classic Business & Personal

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  • mshiggins
    mshiggins Quicken Windows 2017 SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    The workaround for this used to be edit the reminder, set to 1x per month, save. Then edit reminder, set to 1x per year, save.

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  • glacial
    glacial Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭

    Thanks for the the tip mshiggins. That bug was the problem and your fix worked.

    When I set it from yearly to monthly, it displays the option for "Every X months" on the dialog and it was at 5 months.

    So then I did as you instructed and that fixed it.

    I am also able to reproduce the error by reversing the process. Whatever the setting for "Every X months" on the Monthly options is set to will be displayed in the list as "Every X Years" if the reminder is changed to Yearly.

  • glacial
    glacial Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭

    … and more info on reproducing this bug.

    The same problem exists for the Monthly, Weekly, and Daily reminders' "How Often" to repeat setting. Whatever the last "Every X …" setting on any of those options will be used in the display if set to Yearly, even though Yearly has no such option in its dialog.