[GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

[Adrien Monteleone]

I don’t know of a way to save search criteria, however, when you do a Find, you get a results tab.

If you do a subsequent find, you’ll effectively be narrowing the search results. (because you’re running the find from the results tab, the new find window is using that as the data set)

So if you need to repeatedly start from a particular criteria, run that `find` operation once to get the intial data set, then from that tab, run find again as you like to narrow down the search.

Just don’t close the initial search result, and always run your next `find` from that tab if that is the data set you want to narrow down. (or just keep running `find` from the next results tab to keep narrowing down further.)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 27, 2019, at 8:09 PM, Jeff Albrecht <jeffa at rodaw.com> wrote:
> 
> I looked through '8.1 Find' https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/tool-find.html hoping to find a way to save a default search criteria setup. I didn't see that in this section, is there a way?
> 
> I've been searching repeatedly today as I enter some transactions for a bank that apparently only exports to .CSV without much retention. Before I manually enter a transaction I search on the transactions amount to see if possibly I've already entered it.
> 
> When I enter ^F for search it always comes up with
>  Type of search radio buttons - Refine current search. (I don't have any other open searches.)
>  Search Criteria - description -> contains
> 
> I'd like it to come up at least for this afternoon's workflow where I'm using ^F many times...
>  Type of search radio buttons - New search
>  Search Criteria - Value (once I select Value has credits or debits and equal to list items are selected.)
> 
>  - Jeff