[GNC] report filtering

[David Carlson]

Paul,

If all the transactions are in only one account, start your Edit > Find
>Number > Contains ... or  Edit > Find > Number > Matches Regex ...
operation from that account register.  If they are in several accounts,
start your Edit > Find >Number > Contains ... or  Edit > Find > Number >
Matches Regex ... operation from the Accounts window.  Then before running
the transaction report use View > Filter By... to limit the date range to
the period that you desire.

David C

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 6:28 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> Do a ‘Find’ and use Number as the field to match.
>
> The result will be a register showing only matching transactions, you can
> then run a ‘register report’ from there.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Dec 20, 2018, at 6:16 PM, Paul Kinzelman <paul at kinzelman.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm using GC3.3 and trying to get a report out.
> >
> > I used somebody's advice and put in a text string in the 'Number' field
> > for certain transactions of interest, say "xyz".
> >
> > How do I create a report that contains just those transactions that I
> > labeled as xyz in the number field?
> >
> > I tried Reports | Transaction Report and edited the options and
> > put in "xyz" for Filter | Transaction Filter
> > but that doesn't work probably because
> > according to the hover-help, the Transaction Filter looks only at the
> > description, notes and memo fields?
> >
> > It doesn't look like there's a way to filter one specified field?
> >
> > So any filtering is limited to those three fields?
> >
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