simple find transactions report

[Christopher Lam]

Hi Elmar

>From the default Transaction Report, choose:

Accounts/Accounts: select the Expenses:Discretionary:Travel, click 'Select
children' which will select Expenses:Discretionary:Travel:Lodging etc

Sorting/Primary Key: Date
Sorting/Primary Subtotal: none
Sorting/Secondary Key: Description

or

Sorting/Primary Key: Description
Sorting/Secondary Key: Date
Sorting/Secondary Subtotal: none

Good luck!

Next release 2.7 onwards will have arbitrary string searching.

On 2 November 2017 at 22:59, Elmar <etschme at gmail.com> wrote:

> Getting a report by payee/description for a set of dates across a set of
> accounts, is still opaque to me, though.  I have a "travel" account under
> expenses-discretionary, that is itself split into lodging, travel, fees,
> etc.  I am trying to retrieve all transactions from all these subaccounts
> sorted by payee and date to dump into a spreadsheet.  Doing a "find" on the
> placeholder account "travel" gives me nothing at all. Do I have to go and
> learn SQL to get what I need?
>
> - Elmar
>
> On 10/10/2017 11:17 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>
>> Heh, sorry. I'm not near a computer to verify my directions and won't be
>> until next week...
>>
>> Glad you managed to decode my terse answer.
>>
>> Geert
>>
>> Elmar <etschme at gmail.com> schreef op 9 oktober 2017 21:37:57 GMT+01:00:
>>  >Perfect!  Thanks, although I had to translate this to the menu entry
>>  >"edit/find" (not "search")
>>
>
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