Searching within splits

[prl]

Thanks for the quick reply, John, but searching on Memo instead of 
Description doesn't seem to work for me, even for strings I *know* are 
in splits (because I'm looking straight at them). I've checked that it's 
not a case sensitivity problem (the Case Insensitive? button is left 
pressed as in the default), and also I've tried using the correct case 
in the typed in match string, with both Case Insensitive pressed and not 
pressed.

I'm doing the search by selecting the account I want to search (with no 
Search Results window in the accounts tabs), then pressing command-F and 
doing the search as described above. This seems to work as I expect for 
searches in transactions that aren't split. Whether I select New Search 
or Refine Current Search (the window default) doesn't seem to make a 
difference.

Peter

On 13/01/12 15:08, John Ralls wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2012, at 7:44 PM, prl wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to search for transactions whose splits contain certain strings (e.g. to find all transactions which have a split containing a given string in their notes)?
>>
>> The Find window has the top line that says "Search splits" but it doesn't seem to match strings in the notes section of split lines within transactions. Section 7.1 Find Transactions in the Gnucash Help Manual doesn't seem to help with this.
> In the first listbox, select "memo" instead of "description". The former belongs to splits, the latter to transactions.
>> And speaking of Section 7.1 Find Transactions, it says " When a new search is started only the New Search button is selectable. The other buttons become selectable only when the Search Results register window is visible." This isn't true on my GnuCash (2.4.8 running on OS X 10.6.8). If I do a Find Transactions when there is no Search Results register window visible, all four buttons are selectable, and the default isn't even New Search, it's Refine Current search!
>>
> True, and a bug. I don't have time ATM to go see if it's Mac-only.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
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