[GNC] Search Results

[David H]

David,

Yes that's true, I've only got a date showing up on the left and the sort
order on the right so there looks to be plenty of space in the middle as I
always have Gnucash as big as my monitor allows :-)

Cheers David H.


On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 at 09:50, <davidcousens49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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