Cannot find text or value inside a split

[DonM]

On 2/16/2013 John Ralls wrote:
>>> ...
>>> That leads to another thought -- if the data can be displayed in the
>>> register page, I would think it would be accessible from the search dialog
>>> as well. Both of them start knowing only that they are supposed to display
>>> information about a specific account -- the register displays all the
>>> associated splits, but the find dialog does not.
>>>
>>> Why can't you replicate whatever logic is used to display the register? What
>>> am I missing?
>>
>> The fact that the register only shows splits for one transaction at a time.
>
> That's not correct. Select View>Transaction Journal to see all of the
> splits for all of the transactions. It's the default view for "Find"
> results windows.
>
> It's not that we can't replicate the logic, it's that the Find code
> *doesn't* replicate the logic, because the author wasn't thinking of
> the use case that we're discussing here. Patches welcome.

That makes sense. Thanks.