[Feature] Schedule transaction amount based on account balance

[jasonmichalski]

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Pitch: what problem are you trying to solve?

I have credit card accounts that are used for daily spending, and the balance on these cards are paid in full each month. The amount, however, can vary significantly from month to month so the currently implemented scheduled amount options are insufficient to represent this. I would like to be able to create a scheduled transaction with the amount calculated based on the account balance.

Describe your ideal solution to this problem

Ideally there would be a way to create a recurring scheduled transaction, and the amount would be dynamically calculated based on the running balance of a particular account. For the credit card scenario, it could be useful to capture the balance on a specific date (i.e. the amount might be the balance on January 10th, but the scheduled transaction / due date might be February 10th).

This feature would also tie in nicely with #2126, forecasting cash flow, as the scheduled amount would update as more spending was added to a credit card.

Teaching and learning

This would probably be self evident in the rule creation page by creating a new option for Amount.

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