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Yes agreed.
Ok...so the part about Quick Reports on Payee is confirmed as there also, though not documented in the Release Notes.
P.S. QM2017 release notes have now been updated to reflect the Quick Report for Payee also.
Paul, you can do the same thing on the Mac by just clicking in the search box. If you want to look across all accounts, click on the All Transaction view (in 2017) or All Accounts (2016 and earlier) and use that search box. Let me know if this doesn't do what you want? This is the reason we don't have a literal report. The thinking is a powerful search meets this need.
Just went thru the excercise counseled by Marcus; selected a payee who I have paid thru several accounts.. lists all the payment history across the accounts in question
I found it. The functionality of choosing which columns to search is a little hidden, but I would say that this satisfies my need. It is very fast and easy - once you know it is there. Can I un-vote my suggestion?
Please share what method you are using.
@Marcus, "The thinking is a powerful search meets this need. " It only meets SOME of the need. There are still three needs; one for more powerful searching to be more precise, such as, contains, excludes, multiple fields, etc.; second the ability to save these searches; third to be able to print these results (though in todays age, 'printing' is more the creation of PDFs but that may be hairsplitting.
The suggestion for contains and excludes might be supplemented with wildcards, but I can see that it would be problematic.
From the Banking window, there is a search box in the header. Clicking on the magnifying glass gives you options to choose fields. Typing in the field limits the results. From the Banking window, you get all accounts. For an individual account, the functionality is the same, but limits the results to that account
This is exactly what I was looking for. I am so pleased to have found this thread, and this answer. Thank you Paul!
Well, there does seem to be a bit of a flaw in that if you have hidden accounts (closed accounts from a while back), these "reports" don't seem to find those transactions
I think that is why the accounts are "hidden". I quite often "unhide" accounts if I am doing historical research.
The changes in the reports is very upsetting to me. I had several formats I used over the years and now zilch! Can't compare stuff in the same way or easily for that matter.
I certainly agreed with you when I first made the switch from '07. In response to the upcoming demise of Q'07 for mac, I had tried iBank (Banktivity) and now Q'17. I choose to ignore the "Quicken" in the title of Q'17 and just accepted that I would have to change my workflows. Then I compared Q'17 to Banktivity and found that Q'17 works better for me.
Paul Thanks And I agree this is a pretty good work around the poor situation that Quicken has given us. I've been with quicken so long (Windows version till about 3 years ago) that I don't want to give up on it. I keep thinking it will get as good as the windows version was. Maybe I'm wrong. I do like your way of the work around though. Thanks Again
Thanks!
You can add your VOTE to Add Option to Search in Hidden Account Registers.
-ability to select or deselect transfers to include in income/expense reports and the Home "pie chart" of monthly expenses.
yes there are many features missing from reports in general...which applies to all reports, including Quick Reports but those other features are captured elsewhere.
Agree loss of Report functions in Q2016 is dreadful. Causing lots of problems.
Then be sure to add your votes at the links above. Your VOTE matters!
We understand that reporting needs to be improved and are doing quite a lot of work in this area. We added Comparison and Summary reports in 2017 and are currently building a powerful report engine that can be used to build lots of different type of reports in 2018. Completing the engine is a huge milestone that should help us accelerate reporting capabilities in the 2018 release. With that said, we also fundamentally believe that the search paradigm and the ability to save searches is also an important paradigm to adopt and may fit better with how new customers expect their software products to work. That was belief when Quicken Essentials was built which is why reporting capabilities is limited in the new Quicken Mac. We also have a long way to go to improve our search capabilities but that will also be a priority once we bring reporting in line with 2007. The bottom line is I wanted to let everyone know that we understand reporting is important and we're doing quite a lot to better meet that need.