[GNC] How do I print a transaction register

Jerry Criswell (JC) jcriswell58 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 12:11:46 EDT 2026 

Assets/Current Assets/JC's Drafts

No changes on currency

No changes on Display

No changes on Filter

General Tab 03/01/26 til 03/09/26

Sorting Tab no change

I ignored 8 & 9

JC


On 3/9/26 7:46 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote:

> OK.
>
> What accounts did you pick on the Accounts tab?
> Any changes on the Currency tab?
> Any non-default changes to the Display tab?
> Anything on the Filter tab?
> Any changes on the General tab other than Start/End date?  What dates 
> did you pick?
> What non-default values did you make on the Sorting tab?

>
> What happened to step 8 & 9?
>
> Stephen M Butler
> Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com
> kg7je at arrl.net
> 253-350-0166
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>
> On 3/9/26 17:34, Jerry Criswell (JC) wrote:
>> Step 7
>>
>> JC
>>
>>
>> On 3/9/26 7:22 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
>>> Nothing happened at which step?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/9/26 15:23, Jerry Criswell (JC) wrote:
>>>> Stephen,
>>>>
>>>> I followed your excellent directions more than once. Nothing 
>>>> happened.  Any other ideaas?
>>>>
>>>> JC
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3/9/26 4:38 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
>>>>> I think you really want to generate a Transaction Report.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1.  In your top menu (File, Edit, View, ..., Reports,...) -- Click 
>>>>> on Reports.
>>>>> 2.  In the drop down menu, Click on Transaction Report.
>>>>>
>>>>> You will get a nearly empty tab that says:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>      Transaction Report:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>      No accounts selected
>>>>>
>>>>> This report requires accounts to be selected in the report options.
>>>>>
>>>>> Edit report options <gnc-options:report-id=0#>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. Click on that Edit report options link (which is the same 
>>>>> result as clicking on the OPTIONS in the second level menu items 
>>>>> at the top of the window)
>>>>>
>>>>> You will get a multi-tabbed window to set the various options for 
>>>>> this report.  It defaults to the General Tab
>>>>>
>>>>> 4. Set the date range you want in the General tab.
>>>>>
>>>>> 5. Click on the Accounts tab and select the account/accounts for 
>>>>> which you want the transactions listed.
>>>>>
>>>>> 6. Work your way through the other tabs picking the options you 
>>>>> want (experiment).
>>>>>
>>>>> 7. When you are ready to see the effects of your choices, click on 
>>>>> the OK button in the lower right portion of the multi-tabbed window.
>>>>>
>>>>> 8. Don't like the results?  Click on the Options menu item on the 
>>>>> second menu line at the top of the main window and make changes.
>>>>>
>>>>> 9. Iterate until you like what you see.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Stephen M Butler
>>>>> Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com
>>>>> kg7je at arrl.net
>>>>> 253-350-0166
>>>>> -------------------------------------------
>>>>> GnuPG Fingerprint:  8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/9/26 14:08, Jerry Criswell (JC) wrote:
>>>>>> I have messed with these instructions (see below) a few times 
>>>>>> since 2/15 trying to get an actual report with no luck.  Now I 
>>>>>> will take you step-by-step through those instructions and hope we 
>>>>>> find what I am not understanding.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have opened a list of my accounts in one tab and I have opened 
>>>>>> my share draft/checking account in another tab next to it. No 
>>>>>> other tabs open.  The goal is to print a list of transactions 
>>>>>> from my share draft account from Mar 1 thru today (Mar 9).  I 
>>>>>> understand this page can also be called a transaction register.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Your next instruction says Selected View-Filter By. I take this 
>>>>>> to mean Select View-Filter By so I do that. The share draft 
>>>>>> register is open and has the focus of GC.  I select my date 
>>>>>> range.  Leaving this little range selection open, I Select 
>>>>>> Reports - Account Report and it does open a tab called Register 
>>>>>> but it is blank.  So I went back and started over, called up 
>>>>>> Filter By.  It stil showed the set up, so I clicked OK at the 
>>>>>> bottom. Blank screen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I hope this helps you help me in some way.  Your instructions 
>>>>>> seem logical and clear to me.  Over the years I have found it is 
>>>>>> not uncommon at all for the instructions to say "go here, do this 
>>>>>> and you will see that" and you see something else.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As a reminder I am running Linux Mint 22.3 and GC 5.14.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I now have a tool bar.  It was not checked in the view menu.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2/15/26 11:27 PM, David Cousens wrote:
>>>>>>> Jerry,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The attached is the screenshot of the toolbar which appears 
>>>>>>> after you have:
>>>>>>> Opened the register for the required account;
>>>>>>> Selected View->Filter By from the Menu with the account register 
>>>>>>> open and set the desired selection options (show all  and/or a 
>>>>>>> desired date range);
>>>>>>> Selected Reports->Account Report (second last item in the list) 
>>>>>>>  from the menu with the register for the desired account 
>>>>>>> selected immediately prior;
>>>>>>> This should open a report in a tab labelled Register in a new 
>>>>>>> tab  which has the transactions which were selected for view in 
>>>>>>> the account register
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you are not seeing anything in the report  but transactions 
>>>>>>> do appear in the account register  then that is very weird as 
>>>>>>> the Account Report does not
>>>>>>>  have the options normally set by Edit->Report Options for 
>>>>>>> selecting the date range that most of the other reports in the 
>>>>>>> menu have
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If that toolbar does not appear the first item in the View 
>>>>>>> submenu View->Toolbar needs to be checked i.e. a tick in the 
>>>>>>> selection box to the right of the submenu entry.
>>>>>>> David
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, 2026-02-15 at 20:51 -0600, Jerry Criswell (JC) wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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