[GNC] Help Find Feature

[Adrien Monteleone]

First, I would ask, “Why do you want to delete these transactions?” and second, “Do you want to delete some or *all* of the transactions in that expense account?"

You don’t need to ‘find’ transactions from an expense account to delete them.

Just open the expense account if you want to delete certain ones, which you can narrow with a Find operation there if you like.

Or if you want to delete all transactions in an expense account, just delete the account.

GnuCash will ask you upon account deletion if you want to move the transactions as re-assigned to a different account (good for refactoring your tree) or if you want to delete the transactions entirely. Choose accordingly.

But I’d still be interested in the original “why?” because you *may* be thinking deletion is an answer to a problem that might have a better solution.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Mar 7, 2020 w10d67, at 10:03 PM, Gio Bacareza <gbacareza at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Tommy. This is a really interesting method and I can already think
> of use cases. For my scenario though, as I mentioned earlier response, it
> will add extra steps to what it is that I want to do.
> 
> I want to be able to find transactions to/from expense accounts because I
> need to delete them and I am looking for the fastest way to do that. Thanks