Both of your insights are great, but if you'll pardon my jumping in, I would point out that (in some earlier versions; not sure about the current version), selecting Find would contain an option that was set (by default, I think) to "Find within results" instead of "new search"... this caught me several times.
On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 3:27 AM Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: > Op donderdag 6 april 2023 08:07:12 CEST schreef Stan Brown: > > On 2023-04-05 07:18, Tute Terner wrote: > > > When I search in the Find dialog box using the Description field, > > > everything works. But when I search by the Memo field or the > > > 'Description, Notes or Memo' field or the Action field the Search > > > Results always turn out empty, even though the search string is present > > > in the Memo or Action fields of some transactions. I am using Gnucash > > > 5.0 for Windows, but I have noticed this in some previous versions too. > > > Am I doing something incorrect or is this a bug. I don't see that > > > anybody has mentioned this behaviour in the mailing list or in the bug > > > list. Thank you. > > > > Probably you already know this, but ... > > > > Gnucash will only find transactions that are in the window that is on > > top when you initiate the Find. > > > > To expand on this: the description is a transaction property, while action > and memo are split > properties. > > If you initiate a search from an account register on any split property, > it will only search the > splits that belong to that account and not the other splits for all > transactions shown. > Searching for transaction properties will always work as they are shared > by all splits in the > split register. > > Regards, > > Geert > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
