[GNC] search

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Sun Apr 7 15:00:36 EDT 2019


Certainly not if they are in other splits.

-derek
Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
On April 7, 2019 2:27:00 PM Jeff Abrahamson <jeff at p27.eu> wrote:

> 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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