Cannot find text or value inside a split

[David Carlson]

On 2/13/2013 8:34 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 13 February 2013 14:04, DonM <dm413-gc at intielectronics.com> wrote:
>> I want to search my account register for words that appear in the memo field
>> of a split transaction. This doesn't seem to work. I can find words in the
>> description and note fields of the transaction itself, but it never finds
>> anything when I search the memo field. Even if I search for "contains" a
>> single letter such as "A" in the memo field it does not return anything.
>>
>> Similarly, finding a "value" seems to only work for the amounts in the debit
>> and credit fields of the main transaction. I cannot find an amount that is
>> in the debit or credit field of a split.
> I believe that if you are in the register for a particular account
> then the search will only search transactions specifically for that
> account, so if the split or amount is, for example, on an expense
> account, but you are looking at the bank account then it will not find
> it.  If you go to the main Accounts tab, that shows all the accounts
> and do the search from there then it should find them.  Or of course
> if you go to the appropriate Expenses account and search from there.
>
> Colin
>
>> Since the dialog is titled "split search" I figure this is supposed to work.
>> Am I doing something wrong, or is this broken?
>>
>> I'm using gnucash 2.4.11 on win7.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Don
>>

The manual is not clear and this section is currently being updated. 
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691762 and
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604519

David C
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