[GNC] Find not working in Gnucash for Windows 5.0

[john]

You're leaping to conclusions. The OP didn't say anything about it being a second search.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Apr 6, 2023, at 9:34 AM, Patrick James <patrickjames14 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> This is a bug, and I reported it as Bug ID 798803.
> 
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798803
> 
> Selecting the "New Search" radio button should search as new, but alas, it does not.
> 
> 
>> On 04/05/2023 11:07 PM Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 2023-04-05 07:18, Tute Terner wrote:
>>> When I search in the Find dialog box using the Description field,
>>> everything works. But when I search by the Memo field or the
>>> 'Description, Notes or Memo' field or the Action field the Search
>>> Results always turn out empty, even though the search string is present
>>> in the Memo or Action fields of some transactions.  I am using Gnucash
>>> 5.0 for Windows, but I have noticed this in some previous versions too.
>>> Am I doing something incorrect or is this a bug. I don't see that
>>> anybody has mentioned this behaviour in the mailing list or in the bug
>>> list. Thank you.
>> 
>> Probably you already know this, but ...
>> 
>> Gnucash will only find transactions that are in the window that is on
>> top when you initiate the Find.
>> 
>> Therefore, if you want to make sure of getting all matching transactions
>> in all accounts rather than just one, you need to start your Find while
>> the Accounts window (lost of accounts) is on top.
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