[GNC] Help Find Feature

[David Carlson]

I agree that the purpose and the method are two different animals.  I
wanted to make sure that Gio was aware that the specific method of an
expense account deletion will have consequences in other parts of his data,
so he can avoid shooting himself in the foot.

On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 5:36 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> Looking at the example again, it still isn’t clear what the OP aims to
> accomplish or why. (maybe this isn’t even the right rabbit hole)
>
> If they want to only delete transactions in AccountA that *do not* also
> include splits with AccountB and AccountC, but do include splits with
> Expense:E and Expense:F then probably two successive Find operations would
> need to be done to narrow the result properly. (or just visually skip them
> when deleting)
>
> Otherwise as David noted, AccountB and AccountC will also see those
> transactions disappear and be affected.
>
> This might even be a case where the target transactions should be found,
> then one-by-one, edited manually to exclude splits to Expense:E & Expense:F
> and re-balance each transaction between only AccountA, B, & C.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
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David Carlson