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Bug 736021 - Turn filter off in general ledger by default
Turn filter off in general ledger by default
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface General
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnucash-ui-maint
gnucash-ui-maint
Depends on: 714708
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-09-04 10:02 UTC by Frank H. Ellenberger
Modified: 2018-06-29 23:33 UTC
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Description Frank H. Ellenberger 2014-09-04 10:02:30 UTC 
I watch on the mailing lists and IRC often new user confused by disappeared fresh entered transactions. "View->Filter by ->Show all" usually helps them.

Example and comments from gjanssens and mikee: http://lists.gnucash.org/logs/2014/09/2014-09-04.html#T04:34:03

I assume the reason to set the 1 month filter is performance. But:
1. A new user has not much transaction.
2. If they enter their inventary, many transactions are "out of range". Usually they bought the house, the car and a few commodities a few  years ago.
3. It is not intuitive to have a filter set, if you didn't activate it.

If they hit performance issues, they can set a filter.

This requires, the filter setting becomes persistent, so bug 714708 "Filter and Sort settings in general ledger not being saved" should be fixed before.
Comment 1 Frank H. Ellenberger 2014-09-04 10:11:09 UTC 
You can not set bug dependencies in the new bug form. :-(

There is another one about the filter settings with further references:
bug 689092 - Make general ledger show transactions in timeperiod longer than 1 month
Comment 2 John Ralls 2018-06-29 23:33:24 UTC 
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