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 come up with 'New search' radio button if initiated from accounts tab. It comes up in 'Refine current search' if initiated from any other tab even with no results tabs open. Just my observations here.

What's odd is that the 'Find Transaction' windows is not remaining open. I could say remaining open anymore as several days ago, when I started this thread, It was staying open as I remember at the time thinking it was annoying and closing it with a click on the window's x close or the button close.

Now I can't get it to stay open. I engage the search with a click of the 'Find' button. I've minimized my screens thinking it might be hiding. And tried closing GNUCash and reopening several times.

I dunno, it's kinda of weird, certainly not the end of the world...

 - Jeff


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 you need to repeatedly start from a particular criteria, run that `find` 
operation once to get the intial data set, then from that tab, run find again 
as you like to narrow down the search.

Just don’t close the initial search result, and always run your next `find` 
from that tab if that is the data set you want to narrow down. (or just keep 
running `find` from the next results tab to keep narrowing down further.)

Regards,
Adrien

On Apr 27, 2019, at 8:09 PM, Jeff Albrecht <[email protected]> wrote:

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 apparently only exports to .CSV without much retention. Before I manually 
enter a transaction I search on the transactions amount to see if possibly I've 
already entered it.

When I enter ^F for search it always comes up with
  Type of search radio buttons - Refine current search. (I don't have any other 
open searches.)
  Search Criteria - description -> contains

I'd like it to come up at least for this afternoon's workflow where I'm using 
^F many times...
  Type of search radio buttons - New search
  Search Criteria - Value (once I select Value has credits or debits and equal 
to list items are selected.)

  - Jeff
_______________________________________________
gnucash-user mailing list
[email protected]
To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see 
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information.
-----
Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.

_______________________________________________
gnucash-user mailing list
[email protected]
To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see 
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information.
-----
Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.

Reply via email to