[GNC] Help Find Feature

[Gio Bacareza]

Hi Adrien, thanks for this. I really appreciate it.

I've tried exactly what you have prescribed because that's how I thought I
understood Find - All Accounts work. But alas it has always returned a
blank result. (screenshots attached)
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On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 2:26 AM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> The proper Find operation would be this:
>
> 1. Open the AccountA register.
> 2. Edit > Find
> 3. Set Criteria to “All Accounts”
>         3a. If you want all transactions that contain *both* Expense:E and
> Expense:F
>         -then select both accounts in the pop-up selector (use
> CTRL/CMD-click to select non-adjacent accounts, or shift-click for a range)
>         3b. If you want transactions that contain *either* Expense:E or
> Expense:F
>         -then select Expense:E
>         -then Add another “All Accounts” criteria and select Expense:F
>         -then change the “Search for items where” to “any criteria are met”
> 4. Click the Find button
>
> From the search results, delete each transaction as desired one-by-one.
>
> Note, you can further refine search results with additional Finds from the
> resulting register of a previous Find.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Mar 8, 2020 w11d68, at 1:14 PM, Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
>
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-- 
cheers,

Gio
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