[GNC] Find not working in Gnucash for Windows 5.0

[Patrick James]

I am not a programmer, but this has a similar behavior to the bug I reported, in that the selected tab makes a big difference.

Sure, I reported the bug as a "second search" as that is how I associated it at the time, but with this added information the bug might be more about the tab selected.

I added this to my bug report here:

https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798803


> On 04/07/2023 3:57 AM Tute Terner <tuteterner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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. /
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> The specific search instance I had is this. I have a Gnucash file with 
> accounts X, Y, and Z. X and Y have split Memo fields containing the 
> search string 'paid'. I display account register X and search for 'paid' 
> in the Memo field. Zero results. I then go to 'List of accounts' tree 
> tab and search the same, using 'New Search' every time. I get results 
> from both X and Y. So this works, but I don't want the result from Y.
> 
> So again I search from the accounts tree tab adding the 'and' condition 
> of Account and set it to X. Again 0 results. I display account register 
> Y and run the search on Memo field only. Again 0 results.
> 
> To make doubly sure I created a dummy gnucash file with accounts X, Y 
> and Z as above. Same results. So looks like a bug to me.