Re: [GNC] Which report to use?

2020-12-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Rich, I'm still learning... I'll add that the Transaction Report has a Filter option where you can choose to include or exclude transactions that have matching text in 'Description, Notes, or Memo' fields. (you can't specify which though) And you can use Regular Expressions for a really

Re: [GNC] Which report to use?

2020-12-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Sure it does, the first part of a criteria is the field to search. By default, that is description. You have many options, including Notes alone, or as part of 'Description, Notes, or Memo'. Adrien, Okay, I missed that ... Be careful here

Re: [GNC] Which report to use?

2020-12-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Sure it does, the first part of a criteria is the field to search. By default, that is description. You have many options, including Notes alone, or as part of 'Description, Notes, or Memo'. Be careful here though. You need to do your Finds from the Accounts tab. It is possible to do them

Re: [GNC] Which report to use?

2020-12-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Though a carefully crafted Find ... Adrien, Find apparently does not look in the Notes for the search string. That's where the unique string is located. Regards, Rich ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Which report to use?

2020-12-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Though a carefully crafted Find (or series of them) should narrow down those desired transactions, you also have View > Filter By... at your disposal which might hide any undesirables that remain which meet the available criteria. (but Find also

Re: [GNC] Which report to use?

2020-12-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Though a carefully crafted Find (or series of them) should narrow down those desired transactions, you also have View > Filter By... at your disposal which might hide any undesirables that remain which meet the available criteria. (but Find also allows you to choose to exclude transactions

Re: [GNC] Which report to use?

2020-12-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020, David Carlson wrote: You use the search function to do the editing, then simply print the results with the account report. If you want to hide some of the details you could print to PDF then open the PDF with a spreadsheet app and manipulate the data there. Thanks, David.

Re: [GNC] Which report to use?

2020-12-16 Thread David Carlson
You use the search function to do the editing, then simply print the results with the account report. If you want to hide some of the details you could print to PDF then open the PDF with a spreadsheet app and manipulate the data there. On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 11:19 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On

Re: [GNC] Which report to use?

2020-12-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020, David Carlson wrote: From that description it sounds like you want to nearly arbitrarily pick a few transactions to print out. David, That's true. Four transactions involving two accounts. I would use the search function starting from the chart of accounts to pick

Re: [GNC] Which report to use?

2020-12-16 Thread David Carlson
>From that description it sounds like you want to nearly arbitrarily pick a few transactions to print out. I would use the search function starting from the chart of accounts to pick those needles out of the haystack then use the Account Report. On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 9:44 AM Rich Shepard

[GNC] Which report to use?

2020-12-16 Thread Rich Shepard
I want to print a report that shows 4 transactions: an initial debit to checking account/credit to current liabilities, and 3 credits to checking account/debit to that current liability account. Which report on the Reports menu would be most appropriate for this task? TIA, Rich