using custom text to effect class reports

[Cindy Doughty]

The transaction report I posted today (Sept 12 2017) should be able to
search just note fields, just change the entry on the "sort" tab.

Doug Doughty

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 12:16 PM, George Riner <georgeriner at mycogeo.com>
wrote:

> I'm using the trick of inserting a custom piece of text into transactions
> so that I can then select/sort for that text in report generation. This is
> to get a quicken-style 'class report'. I then put that custom bit of text
> into the "Description contains:" field of the 'Sorting' tab on the report
> options.
>
> It works fine, and I've been using it to mostly satisfaction.
>
> Except that the only option to search in is the 'Description' field. I do
> make purchases with 1 charge to my credit card where the items I bought
> apply to different 'classes' and I insert my custom-text into each 'note'
> field of the split transaction. but I can't set the report options to
> filter by Memo or Note field; only the Description field.
>
> Is my only recourse at present to 'un-split' the transaction into the 2 or
> 3 different transactions for each 'class'? Or am I missing some other
> report filtering options that work on the Memo &/or Note fields?
>
> :George
> Gnucash 2.6.17
> Windows 10
>
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