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[Maf. King]

On Sat 15 September 12 18:51:36 posword wrote:
> Derek Atkins-3 wrote
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Sat, September 15, 2012 3:39 am, posword wrote:
> >> I've completed a financial year and closed the books. Now my tax agent
> >> wants
> >> me to extract transactions for a specific period. I can see no way to do
> >> this.
> > 
> > Do they only want specific transactions?  Or some more broader subset?
> > 
> > You could run a transaction report, then choose the accounts and time
> > frame that they are asking for using the report options.   Have you tried
> > that?
> 
> I just tried that, Derek. I need all the accounts for a period from 1st Feb.
> to 30 June. While I could use the report options dialog for the Transaction
> Reports, it keeps giving me the message, "No transactions were found that
> match the time interval and account selection specified in the Options
> panel." Which is nonsense, of course, since I can display individual
> accounts on the screen and see the transactions.
> 
> I'm inclined to think that closing the book from the Tools menu has somehow
> stopped me from getting a Transactions Report. It doesn't make sense but
> there it is.
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter
> 
>

Hi Peter,

are you just hitting the "select all" button to choose your accounts in the 
report options?

somewhat non-intuitively, that only selects all the accounts that are "visible 
in the list above"

Try a Select-All then a Select-Children or similar

HTH,
Maf.