[GNC] How to find ALL Transactions in ALL Accounts for a Single Specific Date?

[Mark Itzcovitz]

Hi Tom,

Try Find while viewing the Account tree rather than a specific register.

Find in the General Journal seems to work for me; in what way does it not
work for you?

Mark

On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 at 10:04, Tom Route36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi David (and others who replied as well),
>
> Thanks for suggesting the Transaction Report; but that's not what I'm
> looking for.  It's my fault for not being more specific.  I don't want
> to have to create a report.  I'm looking to do a query that produces the
> equivalent of what Find filtering does already within a single account;
> so that I'm seeing the found transactions as they appear in ALL the
> accounts.
>
> You might be asking why that's important for me (as opposed to getting
> to the transactions via a report).  Well this is why.  When I do Find
> filtering for a date range within an account, I get to see the actual
> set of transactions for those dates.  But if what I'm looking for
> doesn't jump out at me, I can do a subsequent Find command to Refine
> Current Search.  That makes it easy to narrow down my search (maybe
> multiple times) to hopefully locate the specific transaction I'm looking
> for.  With Transaction Reports, I essentially have to recreate those
> reports from scratch each time with modifications, which is more time
> consuming.  The key word here is EASY.
>
> BTW, I also looked at some of the other suggestions that popped up in
> the last few minutes, mainly with the General Journal.  But in my tests
> trying to use the Find command with the General Journal, that doesn't
> seem to work at all (unless I'm doing something really wrong there).
>
> So maybe a better way to ask my question is this: Is there a Find
> command that works across ALL accounts at once, rather than just within
> a single account?
>
> Tom
>
>
> On 1/12/2026 1:58 AM, David H wrote:
> > Tom,
> >
> > Have you tried the Transaction Report ?
> >
> > Transaction Report >> Options >> Accounts >> Select all >> General >>
> > Date Posted (or Date Entered) >> Enter Start and End Date ?
> >
> > Cheers David H.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 at 18:40, Tom Route36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi all,
> >
> >     This might be a newbie question; so please forgive me if it is.
> >     But is
> >     there an easy way in GnuCash to get a list of ALL transactions for
> >     ALL
> >     accounts that were recorded into GnuCash against one single specific
> >     DATE (e.g., 2/17/2025)?  Better yet, is there a way to do that
> >     sort of
> >     query for a user-specified DATE RANGE (e.g., all of Feb 2025)?
> >
> >     FYI, I know how to use Find to filter transactions by date within an
> >     INDIVIDUAL account.  But what I'm looking for here is a way to do
> >     that
> >     same kind of date filtering for ALL accounts all at once in a SINGLE
> >     QUERY.  Is that possible?
> >
> >     Tom
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