search behavior

[warlord at MIT.EDU]

Hi,

Quoting David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>:

> Has searching changed radically? My recollection of the behavior a
> while ago (at least several months) was all I had to do to find all
> the transactions in which I paid Shell for gas was to hit ctrl-F,
> enter "Shell" in the Description Contains field, and click Find. The
> result would be all transactions in any account in which the search
> string appeared.
>
> Now Find will only search the account whose register was active when
> the Find dialog was summoned.
>
> It only works for the active account even if I add an additional
> search criteria for 'Account', 'matches any account'  and then choose
> multiple accounts from the account selection window popped up from the
> Choose Accounts button.
>
> The workaround is to activate the General Ledger and then do the
> search, but I'm wondering if something was broken when the sub-
> searches got unblocked.

What if you search from the CoA?

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-derek