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

[Adrien Monteleone]

I just performed a search (from the Accounts Tab) which gave me a Search Results tab (and yes, closed the Find dialog)

Clicking Find again, while viewing the results, defaulted the Find dialog to ‘Refine’ but of course I could have changed it to ’New’ or ‘Add’ or ‘Delete’ instead.

You can keep iterating as you go to get the results you are looking for.

Keeping the Find dialog open might be helpful, but it is only a keyboard shortcut away.

Note, I only get the ‘refine’ behavior if I’m not on the Accounts tab, but as always, I can manually change it to ’New’.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 29, 2019, at 2:10 PM, 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