OK, I'll take a shot at this since I've been using the Transaction Report a
lot over the last two weeks.
If you run a Transaction Report on Checking and select...
Filter Type: Transactions To/From Filter Accounts...
Filter By: Expenses > Utilities
Then Click Apply...
then gnuCash will show you all transactions that hit the checking account that
were charged to the Utilities Expense Account
ALSO... If you want more than one account you can Ctl Click to add accounts...
For instance if you want the Transaction Report to include both Checking and
Savings then you can Click Checking and Ctl Click Savings in "Accounts" section
at the top sections of the Accounts Tab in the Options popup window.
And, you can also add additional "Filter By: accounts in the same way... for
example you can "Filter By"...
Expenses > Insurance > Health Insurance
and then Ctl Click Medical Expenses and then Apply
Then the Transaction Report will show you what hit your Checking and Savings
Accounts that were charged to either Health Insurance or Medical Insurance.
I suggest you copy your gnuCash file and rename the copy test.gnucash and then
open that and do some experiments... shouldn't take long to get the general
idea.
Regarding Regular Expressions... That is a really complicated way to search
used mainly by programmers and I would suggest you avoid it unless you
really... really need a special type of search. If so there are plenty of
YouTube Tutorials on how to search using Regular Expressions.
Didn't cover all your questions but this should get you started.
And finally, I must say, the Transaction Report is a great feature of
gnuCash... so thanks to the development team for that!
Hope this helps.
On Saturday, October 12, 2019, 11:37:33 AM EDT, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
I’m having some trouble understanding the meaning of the Accounts and Filter
tabs options and I find the Help and the Tutorial and Concepts Guide needs a
bit more explanation.
1. Account tab: What does the “Include transactions to/from Filter Accounts”
(and “Exclude”) mean? The documentation uses those same words to describe their
function.
2. Account tab: I understand the Account tree selection under “Accounts” (top
block), but what is the account tree under “Filter By” used for? How can you
“filter by” something you’ve already chosen?
3. Filter tab: How is the “Account Name Filter” used? Am I to change it each
time for a selection or is this invoking a previously-named “Account Name
Filter?”
4. Filter tab: The “Transaction Filter” appears to be used to specify the words
I want to report and link them to the specific transaction in which they
appear, but sometimes the Transaction Report indicates “No transactions were
found,” so perhaps I’m mistaken.
5. Filter tab: When would I select “Use regular expressions for transaction
filter?”
6. Filter tab: What is POSIX and how and why should I invoke it?
7. Filter tab: How can I invoke a boolean “OR” to report either of two or more
transaction filters? (in this case I want to report a transaction that has
either one person’s name or another in the Description.)
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