[GNC] search

[Jeff Abrahamson]

Ah, yes, it didn't occur to me that it wouldn't search through the split
memos.

Jeff Abrahamson

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On 07/04/2019 18:48, John Ralls wrote:
> 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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Jeff Abrahamson
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