Re: [GNC] Problem with "Find"

"David T. via gnucash-user" <[email protected]>
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The problem has to do with the underlying data structures. I've read the explanations in the past, but I can't recall the specifics. Something to do with the "other" split not being considered to be "in" the current register-- but I really can't recall. 

David T. 

On August 28, 2026 3:22:10 PM GMT+05:30, Kalpesh Patel <[email protected]> wrote:
>I would have thought that given that report do very specific things which has rich capabilities or the filter, I would have also assumed that 'Find' from an open register would wade through each and everything raw to find that specific item no matter where it occurs in that register. I am synonymizing 'Find' as 'Search' in traditional sense ...
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Patrick James <[email protected]> 
>Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2026 12:38 PM
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>I have not carefully sorted the request out, but it seems as though the request is for search to behave in a different manner than documented in the manual:
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>"When you open the Find Transactions dialog from an account register tab only the splits associated with that register will be searched. There is one exception, the All Accounts item, see the footnote about it in table Table 8.1, “Search criteria buttons - Split Search” below. For the transactions fields only transactions linked to a split in that register are inspecected and for the rest only the split attached to that account is, with one exception, All Accounts. If you filter the transactions in a register using View → Filter By... , then only transactions in that account and shown by the filter will be searched. If you start from the Accounts page or a General Journal register then all splits in all applicable transactions (in the latter case those included in the register) are inspected."
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>https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5//C/gnucash-manual/tool-find.html
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>> On 08/27/2026 9:01 AM PDT Gyle McCollam <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>  
>> Adrien,
>> Running from the accounts window it shows all 'Doctors & Dentists' expense for those dates.  I only want to see those from a specific credit card account.  When I tried to use both accounts it showed no transactions.
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>> Thank You,
>> 
>> Gyle McCollam
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>> Gyle McCollam
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>> From: Gyle McCollam <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2026 11:20 AM
>> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; 
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>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Problem with "Find"
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>> Adrien & David,
>> The 'find' was run from the credit card account in the account register window.
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>> Thank You,
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>> Gyle McCollam
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>> Gyle McCollam
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>> From: gnucash-user <[email protected]> 
>> on behalf of Adrien Monteleone <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2026 9:38 AM
>> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Problem with "Find"
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>> That 'each and every' can perhaps be narrowed down by amounts.
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>> I agree with not using a date window at first. They could have been 
>> entered incorrectly.
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>> OP still hasn't stated *from* where the Find was run.
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>> Regards,
>> Adrien
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>> On 8/27/26 5:00 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
>> > Reverse the workflow. Open "Doctors & Dentists" register, and 
>> > perform find to the Credit Card account first. Then as a second 
>> > stage refinement add dates. See if that shows. If it doesn't show 
>> > then most likely those transactions have incorrect contra leg. In 
>> > that case review of each every transactions will be needed to hunt 
>> > it down. Alternate I can think of is to generate an Income and 
>> > expense report with those accounts and dates to see if they are there.
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