[GNC] Find not working in Gnucash for Windows 5.0

[R Losey]

Both of your insights are great, but if you'll pardon my jumping in, I
would point out that (in some earlier versions; not sure about the current
version), selecting Find would contain an option that was set (by default,
I think) to "Find within results" instead of "new search"... this caught me
several times.


On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 3:27 AM Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> Op donderdag 6 april 2023 08:07:12 CEST schreef Stan Brown:
> > 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.
> >
>
> To expand on this: the description is a transaction property, while action
> and memo are split
> properties.
>
> If you initiate a search from an account register on any split property,
> it will only search the
> splits that belong to that account and not the other splits for all
> transactions shown.
> Searching for transaction properties will always work as they are shared
> by all splits in the
> split register.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
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