search behavior

[David Reiser]

On Jun 22, 2008, at 9:15 PM, warlord at MIT.EDU wrote:

> 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?

Aha. That does what I was expecting. With the added advantage that the  
subsearches are disabled (only New Search is available from the CoA).

Thanks.

Dave
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David Reiser
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