[GNC] Search Results

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

David H, David,

An obvious place to display the search criteria might be in the status bar when
the Search tab is selected. Multiple criteria may cause some problems however

David Cousens

On Tue, 2021-12-21 at 09:25 +1000, David H wrote:
> David,
> 
> Short answer I don't think you can unfortunately.  As Find and Find Account
> are on the Edit menu, probably more logical to keep it there if something
> were implemented.  You can, when the Search Results is the current tab, go
> back in to Find and instead of a New search add to your existing Find by
> selecting "Refine current search" so perhaps it would be nice if when you
> selected "Refine current search" it re-displayed the search criteria in use
> - no need for a menu item at all then.  Even better if you could name
> searches and it remembered previous searches and populated a dropdown list
> with the search names giving you the ability to click on a search name and
> have the details populated in the Search Criteria screen fields.
> 
> You may be better off using a saved report instead - that would show you
> the search criteria in the report options allowing you to tweak things as
> required ?
> 
> I did ask some time ago why gnucash doesn't remember previous searches to
> allow you to re-run them by just clicking on the search entry as I was
> searching in individual accounts repeatedly for the same target but then
> Adrien put me on the straight and narrow by suggesting I use Find as
> opposed to Find Account :-)
> 
> Cheers David H.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 at 06:12, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > How can I find our what the search criteria are for a particular search
> > results window and how can I re-open the search to modify the criteria?
> > I know that is not under the tools menu, but perhaps it should be?
> > 
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