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 <je...@rodaw.com> wrote: > > 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 <je...@rodaw.com> 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 > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > 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 > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
