Re: [GNC] Problem with "Find"

Now that you've found what is arguably gnc's most powerful and flexible 
report I suggest your time will be well rewarded if you familiarise 
yourself with it a bit more.

Wm

On 2026-08-27 22:13, Gyle McCollam wrote:
> THANK YOU.  I don't know how I missed transaction report, but I did.  I used the credit card account and filtered on the expense account and I got exactly what I was looking to find.
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> I still don't know why find didn't work, but your solution works fine.
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> Thank You,
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> Gyle McCollam
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> Gyle McCollam
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> From: Kalpesh Patel <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2026 3:36 PM
> To: 'Gyle McCollam' <[email protected]>; 'gnucash-user' <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [GNC] Problem with "Find"
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> I have v4.14 and I see ‘Transactions Report’ under ‘Reports’ menu. Same idea as the Trial Report here. Use the ‘Accounts’ tabs from the option to select accounts in question – credit card and ‘Doctors and Dentists’ and then use the ‘General’ tab to set the start and end dates -- 07/22/2026 & 08/24/2026 -- to limit what is displayed.
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> After this, I am out of ideas other than to go through transaction by transaction in the credit card register to find them. As mentioned earlier, if you know the amount then you can run ‘Find’ for that amount from the open register of the accounts in question.
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> From: Gyle McCollam <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2026 11:49 AM
> To: Kalpesh Patel <[email protected]>; 'gnucash-user' <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Problem with "Find"
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> Tried from the expense account and it still doesn't return any transactions.
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> AS for your suggestion to run an income and expense report, I have never run reports and under 'income and expense', I tried Trial Balance selecting only the 'Doctors & Dentists' account and the dates I wanted.  Then I clicked on the related link and it showed me the expenses in the account, but from the beginning of time (at least from when I started using Gnucash in 2015).
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> Thank You,
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> Gyle McCollam
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> Gyle McCollam
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> From: Kalpesh Patel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2026 6:00 AM
> To: 'Gyle McCollam' <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; 'gnucash-user' <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: RE: [GNC] Problem with "Find"
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> 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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> From: Gyle McCollam <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 11:35 PM
> To: Kalpesh Patel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; 'gnucash-user' <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Problem with "Find"
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> Thanks, I tried 'New Search' for just the account, but it still returns nothing.
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> Thank You,
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> Gyle McCollam
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> Gyle McCollam
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> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>           email
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> ________________________________
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> From: Kalpesh Patel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 4:49 PM
> To: 'Gyle McCollam' <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; 'gnucash-user' <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: RE: [GNC] Problem with "Find"
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> Only thing to watch out is that make sure that you select 'Type of search'
> to 'New search' when updating/modifying the search criteria as default
> selection is to refine the search, otherwise those transaction are not
> assigned to "Doctors & Dentists" anymore.
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> I suggest take two steps approach ... first find all transaction from credit
> card account that are assigned to "Doctors & Dentists" and then refine it to
> be between dates in the second step refinement.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gyle McCollam <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 12:34 PM
> To: gnucash-user <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: [GNC] Problem with "Find"
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> I tried to "Find" transactions in my credit card account that were charged
> to the expense account "Doctors & Dentists" between the dates 07/22/2026 &
> 08/24/2026.  I selected "Account", "Choose Accounts", then selected
> "Expense" and the "Doctors & Dentist" account.  I also added the 2 dates as
> additional criteria.  It found no transactions and I know there were at
> least 2.  I tried doing it again, this time leaving out the dates, knowing
> that I could just look at the last month.  Again, it found o Transactions.
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> What am I doing wrong or is this a bug?
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> Thank You,
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> Gyle McCollam
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> Gyle McCollam
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