[GNC] Help Find Feature

[Adrien Monteleone]

Per a previous post Gio noted the intent to delete *some* expense transactions.

The example given was:

> So example consider accountA. In it you would have transactions to/from:
> AccountB
> AccountC
> Expense:E
> Expense:F
> 
> I want to be able to search so it will list Expense:E and F but NOT
> Accounts B and C.  Then I can delete these expenses.

It still isn’t clear if the intent is to delete everything in Expense:E & Expense:F or just those that also are split with AccountA.

In the latter case, a proper Find operation I think is the fastest route, deleting each one by one from that resulting list. (a search result that is, not a report which does involve extra clicks as the OP noted.)

Regards,
Adrien



> On Mar 8, 2020 w11d68, at 12:48 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> Hmm.  Did you say _every_ transaction involved in _all_ expense accounts?
> 
> Open your file and save off a copy.
> 
> Then on the Accounts tab, find the top-level Expenses account and
> highlight that.
> 
> Click on Edit menu item and then on Delete Account.
> 
> On the popup screen select the options to delete sub-accounts and to
> delete transactions.
> 
> Click on the Delete button on the lower right corner.
> 
> POOF -- all transactions involving an expense account are gone.  So are
> all the Expense accounts!  But you can add those back in as needed.