I think you really want to generate a Transaction Report.
1. In your top menu (File, Edit, View, ..., Reports,...) -- Click on
Reports.
2. In the drop down menu, Click on Transaction Report.
You will get a nearly empty tab that says:
Transaction Report:
No accounts selected
This report requires accounts to be selected in the report options.
Edit report options <gnc-options:report-id=0#>
3. Click on that Edit report options link (which is the same result as
clicking on the OPTIONS in the second level menu items at the top of the
window)
You will get a multi-tabbed window to set the various options for this
report. It defaults to the General Tab
4. Set the date range you want in the General tab.
5. Click on the Accounts tab and select the account/accounts for which
you want the transactions listed.
6. Work your way through the other tabs picking the options you want
(experiment).
7. When you are ready to see the effects of your choices, click on the
OK button in the lower right portion of the multi-tabbed window.
8. Don't like the results? Click on the Options menu item on the second
menu line at the top of the main window and make changes.
9. Iterate until you like what you see.
Stephen M Butler
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On 3/9/26 14:08, Jerry Criswell (JC) wrote:
I have messed with these instructions (see below) a few times since
2/15 trying to get an actual report with no luck. Now I will take you
step-by-step through those instructions and hope we find what I am
not understanding.
I have opened a list of my accounts in one tab and I have opened my
share draft/checking account in another tab next to it. No other tabs
open. The goal is to print a list of transactions from my share draft
account from Mar 1 thru today (Mar 9). I understand this page can
also be called a transaction register.
Your next instruction says Selected View-Filter By. I take this to
mean Select View-Filter By so I do that. The share draft register is
open and has the focus of GC. I select my date range. Leaving this
little range selection open, I Select Reports - Account Report and it
does open a tab called Register but it is blank. So I went back and
started over, called up Filter By. It stil showed the set up, so I
clicked OK at the bottom. Blank screen.
I hope this helps you help me in some way. Your instructions seem
logical and clear to me. Over the years I have found it is not
uncommon at all for the instructions to say "go here, do this and you
will see that" and you see something else.
As a reminder I am running Linux Mint 22.3 and GC 5.14.
I now have a tool bar. It was not checked in the view menu.
On 2/15/26 11:27 PM, David Cousens wrote:
Jerry,
The attached is the screenshot of the toolbar which appears after you
have:
Opened the register for the required account;
Selected View->Filter By from the Menu with the account register open
and set the desired selection options (show all and/or a desired
date range);
Selected Reports->Account Report (second last item in the list) from
the menu with the register for the desired account selected
immediately prior;
This should open a report in a tab labelled Register in a new tab
which has the transactions which were selected for view in the
account register
If you are not seeing anything in the report but transactions do
appear in the account register then that is very weird as the
Account Report does not
have the options normally set by Edit->Report Options for selecting
the date range that most of the other reports in the menu have
If that toolbar does not appear the first item in the View submenu
View->Toolbar needs to be checked i.e. a tick in the selection box to
the right of the submenu entry.
David
On Sun, 2026-02-15 at 20:51 -0600, Jerry Criswell (JC) wrote:
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