[GNC] search

[John Ralls]

Since it works when you search the whole book and fails when you search only one account, I must ask if you put the note in the memo field of the split for the account you're searching?

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Apr 7, 2019, at 9:21 AM, Jeff Abrahamson <jeff at p27.eu> wrote:
> 
> The list strips images, so information was lost.
> 
> I have an entry with a memo field containing the word (text string)
> "=JUSTIFICATIF".
> 
> J
> 
> 
> On 07/04/2019 18:05, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
>> [This is gnucash 2.6.19 on linux.  Some day I'll upgrade to 3.x.]
>> 
>> I have some transactions in which I've put a reminder that I am missing
>> the bill or receipt so that (ideally) we will chase the person who owes it.
>> 
>> But when I do a search for "description, note, or memo contains JUST" or
>> even the full =JUSTIFICATIF, I get an empty result set (despite having
>> checked "new search").  I'm only searching in the account where this
>> happens.
>> 
>> I can search for other words in the memo field.  Is there something
>> special about the equal sign?  Or some other reason this might not be
>> working?  (I used the equal sign to make it easy to search for such
>> tags, but that seems not to be working.  This is my private hack for not
>> having analytical accounting features.)
>> 
>> If I search the entire book (search initiated from the accounts window),
>> I do see results.  It's doubly strange that the search is different
>> depending on where I initiated it, given that all the results are in the
>> one bank account.
>> 
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