[GNC] Using GnuCash as an Accounting Tutor

[Adrien Monteleone]

It was renamed at some point.

Indeed, saving the filter change now works as expected. Thanks!


Regards,
Adrien

On 9/10/23 12:35 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> On 2023-09-10 09:01, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>> there is Tools > General Journal. (by default I think only the last 30
>> days, but you can change that with 'View > Filter by...' Sadly, there is
>> no way to turn off the filter by default, and it has to be reset each
>> time the General Journal is opened if desired.
> 
> Not quite sure what you mean here, Adrien.
> 
> In GC 2.x, General Journal was called General Ledger. The filter on
> General Ledger would not persist, even if you ticked Save Filter.
> Closing and reopening the General Ledger tab reverted to showing the
> past 30 days, even if you reopened General Ledger in the same GC session.

> 
> In 4.14, the default is only to show the past 30 (or 31?) days. But when
> I set a filter to show everything from a particular date till today and
> tick Save Filter, that filter _does_ persist, even if I close and reopen GC.
> 
> And there _is_ a way to turn the filter off once and for all: View »
> Filter, select Show All, tick Save Filter, and click OK. I've tried that
> just now, and it also persists through closing and reopening GC. There
> are other options to select a number of days or a date range.
> 
> I don't have 5.x (waiting for 5.4's release), but II wouldn't think it
> likely that General Journal filtering was re-broken in 5.x.