Hi Tom, Try Find while viewing the Account tree rather than a specific register.
Find in the General Journal seems to work for me; in what way does it not work for you? Mark On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 at 10:04, Tom Route36 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David (and others who replied as well), > > Thanks for suggesting the Transaction Report; but that's not what I'm > looking for. It's my fault for not being more specific. I don't want > to have to create a report. I'm looking to do a query that produces the > equivalent of what Find filtering does already within a single account; > so that I'm seeing the found transactions as they appear in ALL the > accounts. > > You might be asking why that's important for me (as opposed to getting > to the transactions via a report). Well this is why. When I do Find > filtering for a date range within an account, I get to see the actual > set of transactions for those dates. But if what I'm looking for > doesn't jump out at me, I can do a subsequent Find command to Refine > Current Search. That makes it easy to narrow down my search (maybe > multiple times) to hopefully locate the specific transaction I'm looking > for. With Transaction Reports, I essentially have to recreate those > reports from scratch each time with modifications, which is more time > consuming. The key word here is EASY. > > BTW, I also looked at some of the other suggestions that popped up in > the last few minutes, mainly with the General Journal. But in my tests > trying to use the Find command with the General Journal, that doesn't > seem to work at all (unless I'm doing something really wrong there). > > So maybe a better way to ask my question is this: Is there a Find > command that works across ALL accounts at once, rather than just within > a single account? > > Tom > > > On 1/12/2026 1:58 AM, David H wrote: > > Tom, > > > > Have you tried the Transaction Report ? > > > > Transaction Report >> Options >> Accounts >> Select all >> General >> > > Date Posted (or Date Entered) >> Enter Start and End Date ? > > > > Cheers David H. > > > > > > On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 at 18:40, Tom Route36 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > This might be a newbie question; so please forgive me if it is. > > But is > > there an easy way in GnuCash to get a list of ALL transactions for > > ALL > > accounts that were recorded into GnuCash against one single specific > > DATE (e.g., 2/17/2025)? Better yet, is there a way to do that > > sort of > > query for a user-specified DATE RANGE (e.g., all of Feb 2025)? > > > > FYI, I know how to use Find to filter transactions by date within an > > INDIVIDUAL account. But what I'm looking for here is a way to do > > that > > same kind of date filtering for ALL accounts all at once in a SINGLE > > QUERY. Is that possible? > > > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > 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 > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
