[GNC] exporting search?

[Paul Kinzelman]

Thank you. That's what I did, but there wasn't an obvious way to
export that account.

On 2/19/2022 6:35 PM, D. wrote:
> Personally, I'd have a separate account for medical expenses, and then 
> a transaction report for that account would quickly give me totals for 
> any given period.
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> *From:* Geoff
> *Sent:* Sat Feb 19 18:32:43 EST 2022
> *To:* paul at kinzelman.com, Gnucash Elist
> *Subject:* Re: [GNC] exporting search?
>
> Hi Paul
>
> Your original request said you required a list of expenses.  If you only
> want the totals amount, there is no need to export at all.  Just scroll
> to the bottom of the Account Report, which shows the the total Debits,
> Credits, and Balance.
>
> As to your other useful suggestions, please excuse the editorial.  I see
> that the lead article on your web site is titled "The Importance of
> Building a Strong Community".
>
> The great thing about GnuCash is that it is built, maintained, and
> supported by a wonderful volunteer open source community.  Please feel
> free to join us.  I am sure that someone with your background and
> experience could make and make a valuable contribution:
>
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Contributing_to_GnuCash
>
> Regards
>
> Geoff
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>
> On 20/02/2022 10:03 am, Paul Kinzelman wrote:
>
>     Thank you! I see now how I can do that, but it's not all that
>     convenient to do, seems like it would be something that lots of
>     people would want to do. Copy/paste from HTML seems like not a
>     good way to expect people to do it as well. All I want is a total
>     of the columns of a search, seems like this ought to be a feature
>     built in already. I also looked for this kind of search/export in
>     the documentation and couldn't find it, it'd be nice to say
>     something about that too. I tried things like "export search
>     results" and nothing came up. Even "search results" didn't say
>     much. A section on common things people like to do would be good.
>     On 2/19/2022 3:40 PM, Geoff wrote:
>
>         Hi Paul From the Search Results tab, choose Reports / Account
>         Report. This opens a new tab with a variant of the Transaction
>         Report showing just the transactions in your Search Results. 
>         The Report Options let you tweak which columns are displayed.
>         From there, you can either File / Export / Report, or just
>         select all and copy /paste. The export format is HTML, but it
>         pastes into Microsoft Excel in a usable format. Regards Geoff
>         ===== On 20/02/2022 6:49 am, Paul Kinzelman wrote:
>
>             Is there some way to export search results? I was trying
>             to get a list of medical expenses for the past year and I
>             didn't see any easy way to do this, is there a good way to
>             do it? I tried search but I couldn't export it or total
>             the columns. It seems like I should be able to export this
>             list - this is a general question. I tried income expense
>             cash flow for the year, but it gave me just money-in and
>             money-out. I was looking for detail to export to a spread
>             sheet. I finally did File Export Transactions and got what
>             I wanted but it seems like there should be an easier way.
>             Suggestions? Thanks!
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