I have a need

Mike Cohagan mccohagan at hotmail.com
Sun Sep 25 16:14:55 EDT 2016


John Ralls,

Thank you. It got to the point where I would just delete this string when it made its way into my inbox.

Much appreciated. I will give it a try.

Mike



From: John Ralls<mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 2:28 AM
To: Mike Cohagan<mailto:mccohagan at hotmail.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org<mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: I have a need


> On Sep 21, 2016, at 10:53 PM, Mike Cohagan <mccohagan at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> David,
>
> No worries. I appreciate the effort. Hopefully an answer will turn up.

Mike,

Your problem got lost in the digression about regular expressions. That relied on the assumption that you differentiated checks from other transactions by entering the check number in the Number field only for checks, and that you're really looking for a list of transactions involving numbered checks.

Your original question was "I have a need to provide all the checks I've written (just the ones I've written) since 1/1/2015 to present."

I'd interpret that as copies of each paper check that you've written. GnuCash can't do that, but your bank can. My bank's website provides a handy interface for that.

On the other hand, if it's a list of transactions you're after, GnuCash may be able to help. Do you differentiate check transactions by entering the check number in the Num field of the transaction? Do you enter anything in the Num field on any other transactions? Did you have Preferences>General>Set book option on new files to use split "action" field for "Num" field on registers/reports set when you created your file?

If the answers to those questions are yes, yes, no, and no, then open the checking account register and open the find dialog (Edit>Find or control(command on a Mac) F). Select from the list boxes "Date Posted" and "on or after" and enter 1 Jan 2015 in the entry. Now click the Add button in the upper left corner. That will create a second row. In that row select "Number" and "matches Regex", then "[0-9]+" in the entry and click Find in the lower right.

Otherwise, please tell us more about how you record transactions.

Regards,
John Ralls



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