Re: [GNC] searching in General Ledger View

2018-09-15 Thread Geert Janssens
Op zaterdag 15 september 2018 09:31:00 CEST schreef David Carlson: > Alas, I keep going further down the rabbit hole. Now I discovered that the > General Ledger view had somehow been corrupted and none of the standard > register menu functions were available. So I saved the file, then it was > po

Re: [GNC] searching in General Ledger View

2018-09-15 Thread Geert Janssens
Op zaterdag 15 september 2018 09:16:31 CEST schreef David Carlson: > One more detail: in the General Ledger, when changing the criteria to > matches regex, entering .* for the regex and changing type to add results > to current search, the new result is not filtered by date as it was > originally.

Re: [GNC] searching in General Ledger View

2018-09-15 Thread David Carlson
Alas, I keep going further down the rabbit hole. Now I discovered that the General Ledger view had somehow been corrupted and none of the standard register menu functions were available. So I saved the file, then it was possible to see that the View > Filter by status was still set to start one m

Re: [GNC] searching in General Ledger View

2018-09-15 Thread David Carlson
One more detail: in the General Ledger, when changing the criteria to matches regex, entering .* for the regex and changing type to add results to current search, the new result is not filtered by date as it was originally. In fact, the View > Filter By menu item is greyed out and unavailable. I

Re: [GNC] searching in General Ledger View

2018-09-14 Thread David Carlson
The help manual Chapter 8 section 8.1 fails to point out that the find assistant [Split Search] Type of Search defaults to New search when started from the main accounts hierarchy page, but it defaults to Refine current search when started from a normal Account Register window or from the General L

Re: [GNC] searching in General Ledger View

2018-09-14 Thread D via gnucash-user
I think you just close the search tab. On September 14, 2018, at 6:13 PM, David Carlson wrote: While I happen to be using release 2.6.19 or so, I think my problem is still current. I opened a general ledger view then I searched for transactions containing certain text in the description. This

[GNC] searching in General Ledger View

2018-09-14 Thread David Carlson
While I happen to be using release 2.6.19 or so, I think my problem is still current. I opened a general ledger view then I searched for transactions containing certain text in the description. This left the results in the general ledger view. How do I return to the general ledger view before the