[GNC] ^F Find not finding recently entered text in Memo field

[David Carlson]

Jeff,
Is the text that you are searching for  in a split line for the home bank
register or is it in the "other" split line?


On Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 4:41 PM Jeff Albrecht <jeffa at rodaw.com> wrote:

> On 1/23/2023 3:27 PM, David H wrote:
> > Jeff,
> >
> > If you do a find from the accounts tab it will search in all splits,
> > if however you do a find in a Register tab it only looks at splits for
> > that particular Register, it doesn't search in splits belonging to
> > other Register's.  Are you falling into this trap ?
>
> Thanks David. Interesting,
>
> If I do the find from the Accounts tab it does find the transaction. But
> I have been searching in the bank register where the transaction I'm
> looking for resides. It doesn't find the transaction that is in the bank
> register searched from that specific bank register where the transaction
> I'm looking for resides.
>
>   - Jeff
>
>
> >
> > Cheers David H.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 08:06, Jeff Albrecht <jeffa at rodaw.com> wrote:
> >
> >     Windows 11
> >     Version: 4.13
> >     Build ID: 4.13+(2022-12-17)
> >
> >     FWIW I've been, happily, using GNUCash for several years.
> >
> >     I'm working on my 2022 taxes importing .OFX files from my banks. I
> >     generally want to add a memo on most transactions with notes found
> >     from
> >     the vendor transaction details on their respective sites. Since this
> >     adding memos isn't currently possible during the import I move
> >     transaction to a temporary 'unaccounterd for 2022' register where
> >     I add
> >     notes in the memo field, categorize the transaction and save.
> >
> >     Occasionally I want to verify that I entered the correct notes in the
> >     Memo field. I do a find with 'contains' searching in the
> >     'description,
> >     notes or memo' This find operation doesn't appear to be finding
> >     transactions I've entered today although if I search visually through
> >     the register they have been entered. I did upgrade to 4.13 from some
> >     4.xx version before I started working on this .OFX import. I haven't
> >     used Find for some time but if my memory is correct I've used find
> >     similarly in the past successfully.
> >
> >     I tried to find some kind of re-indexing function. Does such an
> >     option
> >     exist?
> >
> >     I did try exiting and restarting GNUCash and repeating the find
> >     with the
> >     same results, not finding transaction with memos entered today.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     --
> >     Jeff Albrecht KF7CRU @jhalbrecht
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