[GNC] Running balance/total from search results is always $0.00

[Adrien Monteleone]

If the Memo field is your only criteria, then just use the Transaction 
Report and use the Filter tab for your Memo text.

Note, you'll need to decide which account you are summing on the report 
though. (likely the same issue with the Account Report) In the case of 
multiple expense accounts for one or more transactions, you'd want to 
sum and sort off the source account for the funds, usually an asset, but 
could be a credit card or other liability. Be warned though, that will 
be the sum of the entirety of those transactions, not just the 
individual splits you want to highlight. So if there are other 
non-interesting splits in those transactions that balance the source 
funds, they'll get included as well.

Regards,
Adrien

On 5/29/24 12:42 AM, Chandler via gnucash-user wrote:
>      I'd like the sum of the values from entries with certain criteria in
> the "Memo" field in an expense account.  I can get the list of
> transactions containing these entries by searching the Memo field.
> Then, everything I found says I can open a Report > Account Report to
> get the running balance/total, however that column always remains $0.00
> for me.
> 
>      I wonder if this has to due with the double-entry bookkeeping I'm
> using?  The display is also complicated by the fact that these
> transactions can include 3 or 4 different expenses which means instead
> of just 2 lines for funds in/funds out, there could be 8 lines for funds
> in/out of 4 different accounts, all of which are shown in the Account
> Report, yet I'm only interested in the values from the one account I
> performed the initial search from.
> 
> Using Gnucash 5.6