[GNC] searching in General Ledger View

[David Carlson]

Alas, I keep going further down the rabbit hole.  Now I discovered that the
General Ledger view had somehow been corrupted and none of the standard
register menu functions were available.  So I saved the file, then it was
possible to see that the View > Filter by status was still set to start one
month before the date that was today when the view was opened, but the view
actually contained every transaction back to the beginning of time.  It was
again possible to do other things like jumping to another account
register.  It must be time for bed.

David C


On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 2:16 AM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> One more detail: in the General Ledger, when changing the criteria to
> matches regex, entering .* for the regex and changing  type to add results
> to current search, the new result is not filtered by date as it was
> originally. In fact, the View > Filter By menu item is greyed out and
> unavailable.   I did not test the condition where the filter setting may
> have been saved at the beginning of the trial.
>
> David
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:35 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The help manual Chapter 8 section 8.1 fails to point out that the find
>> assistant [Split Search] Type of Search defaults to New search when started
>> from the main accounts hierarchy page, but it defaults to Refine current
>> search when started from a normal Account Register window or from the
>> General Ledger window.  Further, the results are presented in a new window
>> when started from the main accounts hierarchy page or from a normal Account
>> Register window, but  the results are presented in the *same window when
>> started from the General Ledger window*.  This is probably designed to
>> respect the View >Filter By option in the Account register view and in the
>> General Ledger view.
>>
>> The Delete results from current search type is apparently intended to
>> delete transactions that match the newly chosen criteria from the current
>> search result rather than to undo the last search refinement or
>> modification.
>>
>> Finally, John Ralls' answer to my original question was interesting.  In
>> the General Ledger window, at least, it is possible to return to the
>> un-searched view by changing Search Criteria " ... contains to matches
>> regex and enter .* for the regex. And check "add results to current search"
>> in the search type radio box."
>>
>> I hope that we can get all of that into the help manual.
>>
>> David C
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>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 6:31 PM D <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> I think you just close the search tab.
>>>
>>> On September 14, 2018, at 6:13 PM, David Carlson <
>>> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  While I happen to be using release 2.6.19 or so, I think my problem is
>>> still current. I opened a general ledger view then I searched for
>>> transactions containing certain text in the description. This left the
>>> results in the general ledger view. How do I return to the general ledger
>>> view before the search?
>>>
>>> David C
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