General Journal - history limit and search

[Aaron Laws]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Roger Oliver <rmomxtx at gmail.com> wrote:

> I notice my general journal only goes back to the beginning of Octuber.
> Transactions from September don't show. A search by date doesn't find any
> transactions earlier than October either. Is there a setting I'm
> overlooking to include everything in the general journal?
>
> Also, when I search the general journal the results are shows in the same
> journal, not in another register. Don't know how to get the general journal
> back to showing all the transactions. I just close it and open the general
> journal again from the tools menu. Is there a better way? Something I'm not
> doing correctly in the search criteria window?
>
> Thanks,
> Roger


With the General Ledger open, click "View" then "Filter By..." and adjust
the filter to your liking. It doesn't remember this setting, so you'll have
to do it any time you close then reopen gnucash.