Find/Report invoices with a particular line in a description field

[Robert L Brush III]

Yeah, sorry about that, unfortunately these days I'm not usually on a
computer, and my phone doesn't always help, sometimes it will respond to
all and sometimes it just doesn't have that option, I don't know why, but
it can really make a mess out of a good thread.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> (sorry to top-post but everyone else has in this thread)
>
> another option would be to use XML and set the preference in "Auto-save
> time interval" to one minute.
>
> If you do this, you will want to set the "Retain log/backup files" to some
> small number of days, because GnuCash will likely generate many of them.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:33 AM, R. Victor Klassen <rvklassen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I had the same thought a few minutes ago.  I may well do this.   It would
>> be a nice to have feature year round, but right now, I’m thinking of annual
>> planning, and for that, a save-as approach would then let me write code to
>> parse and extract anything I want to dump to a spreadsheet.
>>
>> And one of these days I’ll get a working GNUcash development environment
>> on my machine.  Failed to do so last year before the busy season came, but
>> maybe this season…
>>
>>
>> On Dec 2, 2014, at 8:09 AM, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
>>
>> > You could always "save as" out of your master sql format file to a
>> temporary
>> > xml for the purposes of searching.... yeah, a bit kludgey.
>> >
>> > Just a thought,
>> > Maf.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue 2 December 14 07:37:12 R. Victor Klassen wrote:
>> >> I gather you use xml.  I’m using sqlite, because, despite the issues
>> with
>> >> possible corner cases not being fully tested and debugged, I prefer to
>> have
>> >> transactions committed when I hit enter.  I tried XML for awhile, and
>> then
>> >> we had two power outages in a month.  Switched to sqlite, and the
>> power has
>> >> been relatively stable ;-)
>> >> On Dec 1, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Bob Brush <bobbrush3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> I don't know if you are a Linux guy, but if so you can use a program
>> >>> "zcat" and "grep" your file to find anything, it's a beautiful thing
>> in
>> >>> there, everything plain text, descriptions, so nice.. I had to once
>> when
>> >>> I was on a fishing trip for a customer name and I could only remember
>> >>> part of the notes..>
>> >>>> On Nov 29, 2014, at 10:46 AM, R. Victor Klassen <rvklassen at gmail.com
>> >
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Greetings all,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> To give a concrete example, suppose 40 or so different income
>> accounts
>> >>>> associated with different things I sell.  One of these might be
>> widgets
>> >>>> of type A.  And so I have an account for type A widgets, and can
>> easily
>> >>>> see how much I’ve made in type A widgets, although not how many
>> (unless
>> >>>> they are always at the same price), nor whether the red, green or
>> yellow
>> >>>> ones generated the most income.  There are limits to how bushy I
>> want to
>> >>>> make the account tree, so I don’t have a separate account for each
>> >>>> colour of type A widget.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Oh, and I also sell these widgets singly, by the dozen, and by units
>> of
>> >>>> 100 and 1000, with the price each dropping as the volume goes up.
>>  So
>> >>>> it really doesn’t make sense to have an account for every way they
>> get
>> >>>> sold.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> But here’s my question.   How do I find the invoices containing at
>> least
>> >>>> one entry for a red type A widget?  I know the information is in
>> there,
>> >>>> but can I get all the type A widgets reported by what it says in the
>> >>>> invoice description?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> This is a similar question to - I bought a case of bags in which to
>> sell
>> >>>> my widgets - once - and since it is a rare thing to do I recorded it
>> >>>> under “supplies” - which isn’t at all rare - and now I don’t remember
>> >>>> who the supplier was.  How do I search the bills to find one for
>> bags?
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