Searching within splits

[John Ralls]

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)?
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> 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