Re: [GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

2019-05-03 Thread david whiting
I do the same and have often wished there was a hot-key to jump to the CoA, e.g. Ctrl-1. Then I could do Ctrl-1 Ctrl-f, but being able to do it from the Find window would be better. It would be nice if selecting the option to search across all accounts could be bound to ctrl-f when in the Find wind

Re: [GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

2019-05-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I agree, I find myself often having to face palm and then migrate to the the CoA to conduct my search. In fact, I rarely can get any results even *for* the register I’m in. But ‘finding’ from the CoA works every time. Regards, Adrien > On May 2, 2019, at 5:30 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > The

Re: [GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

2019-05-02 Thread David Carlson
The part of the ^F search that I get most frustrated with is that it only searches the split lines belonging to the register that you start in, so I usually have to start by going to the CoA window or open a Ledger window before starting my search. An option to search all transaction accounts with

Re: [GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

2019-05-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
`Memo` is the field for each split where you can put detailed information about that split. It is the second column, the wide one. (first column is called `Action`) To see splits, you either have to click the Split button on the toolbar, the Show Splits link on a transaction, or switch to Trans

Re: [GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

2019-05-01 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Jeff, All three of those would be nice options. On that last one, office apps usually have a Find along with a more powerful Find & Replace as separate dialogs with their own shortcuts. (you don’t have to replace if you don’t want to, but the Find is more powerful in that iteration). I conceive

Re: [GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

2019-05-01 Thread Jeff Albrecht
The major pain, for me at least, is not so much the ^F but the constant changing of the 'Find Transaction' options from 'Description' to 'Value' It's the only way I've used ^F so far - Value and has credits or debits -> equal to. I can see that flexibility of 'Find Transaction' will be very use

Re: [GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

2019-05-01 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I would think having to move the window around/send it to the background (and then bring it up front again when you need it) is more of a pain than hitting ^F / ⌘F. Remember, GnuCash has to accommodate many screen sizes, not just people with 1080 and larger WXGA displays that have the room to k

Re: [GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

2019-04-29 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I just performed a search (from the Accounts Tab) which gave me a Search Results tab (and yes, closed the Find dialog) Clicking Find again, while viewing the results, defaulted the Find dialog to ‘Refine’ but of course I could have changed it to ’New’ or ‘Add’ or ‘Delete’ instead. You can keep

Re: [GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

2019-04-29 Thread Colin Law
I would very much like the search window to remember the previous settings when it is re-opened. Very often I find myself just making a small change and it is a pain to have to re-enter it. On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 20:13, Jeff Albrecht wrote: > > On 4/27/2019 8:49 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > >

Re: [GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

2019-04-29 Thread Jeff Albrecht
On 4/27/2019 8:49 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I don’t know of a way to save search criteria, however, when you do a Find, you get a results tab. In my experimenting I've been closing all of the results tabs (which are labeled 'Search Results') before trying a new search. The new search will

Re: [GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

2019-04-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I don’t know of a way to save search criteria, however, when you do a Find, you get a results tab. If you do a subsequent find, you’ll effectively be narrowing the search results. (because you’re running the find from the results tab, the new find window is using that as the data set) So if yo

[GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

2019-04-27 Thread Jeff Albrecht
I looked through '8.1 Find' https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/tool-find.html hoping to find a way to save a default search criteria setup. I didn't see that in this section, is there a way? I've been searching repeatedly today as I enter some transactions for a bank that apparent