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

[Colin Law]

I would very much like the search window to remember the previous
settings when it is re-opened.  Very often I find myself just making a
small change and it is a pain to have to re-enter it.

On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 20:13, Jeff Albrecht <jeffa at rodaw.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/27/2019 8:49 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> > I don’t know of a way to save search criteria, however, when you do a Find, you get a results tab.
>
> In my experimenting I've been closing all of the results tabs (which are
> labeled 'Search Results') before trying a new search. The new search
> will come up with 'New search' radio button if initiated from accounts
> tab. It comes up in 'Refine current search' if initiated from any other
> tab even with no results tabs open. Just my observations here.
>
> What's odd is that the 'Find Transaction' windows is not remaining open.
> I could say remaining open anymore as several days ago, when I started
> this thread, It was staying open as I remember at the time thinking it
> was annoying and closing it with a click on the window's x close or the
> button close.
>
> Now I can't get it to stay open. I engage the search with a click of the
> 'Find' button. I've minimized my screens thinking it might be hiding.
> And tried closing GNUCash and reopening several times.
>
> I dunno, it's kinda of weird, certainly not the end of the world...
>
>   - Jeff
>
>
> > 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
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