[GNC] Clearing Save Filter checkbox doesn't work for me

[Keith Edmunds]

Thank you for this. It seems that if I leave the filter dialog box open, I can temporarily show reconciled transactions, cancel the dialog and the saved settings are not changed, which is what I want.

However, I find the "Save filter" checkbox utterly unintuitive. My expectation that leaving it unchecked would not change the current filter, but that's not true. To me, that feels like a bug but I recognise that one person's bug is another persons "works as expected".



----- Original message -----
From: Sherlock <sh025622 at gmail.com>
To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Clearing Save Filter checkbox doesn't work for me
Date: Wednesday, 3 June 2026 08:10


On 6/2/26 9:42 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> 
> On 2026-06-02 16:37, Sherlock wrote:
>> When we tell GnuCash to not save a filter and there is an existing saved
>> filter for the register, GnuCash will remove the saved filter when the
>> file is closed (restoring the default filter settings for the register).
>>   This can be confirmed by viewing the gcm file.  The committed filter
>> changes will persist for the session.
> 
> what if there was a filter previously set with the Saved Filter box
> ticked? When the user sets up a filter with that box not ticked, at the
> end of the session is the previous saved filter restored, or the default
> filter? I hope it's the previous saved filter filter, because throwing
> that saved filter away and reverting to the default would seem like a
> bug to me.

The previously saved filter is removed if the "Filter by..." window is 
OK'd without the "Save Filter" box checked.  At the end of the session, 
the register change is committed to the gcm file without a filter.  When 
the session is restarted, the gcm file is reloaded and the register will 
use the default filter.

This appears to be the intended mechanism provided to allow us to remove 
a previously saved register filter - to restore the use of the default 
register filter when the session reopens - while maintaining the 
existing register filter for the current session.

Regards,

Sherlock




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