Is there really no filtering and sorting function?

[molnarti]

I spent my lazy Sunday playing around with Firefly. I already tried more than a year ago, but found it very confusing and overwhelming, then spent some time playing around with Actual but realized its too simple for my use cases and didnt like the zero budgeting principle.

Diving deeper into the app and the functions it looked like its just might me it - with the ability to correctly handle transfer between own accounts and stuff. But then i realized: it looks like there is filtering !

So when i want to find that ~500 eur transaction i made some months ago but i dont remember from which of my 4 bank accounts than basically my only option is search from the database.

I find the lack of such basic function very frustrating and I hope its somewhere on the roadmap to be added.

[JC5]

Hey, thanks for starting this discussion.

There is a search function in the top left corner. Is that not what you need?

Cheers,
James

[molnarti]

Took me longer to find that search function than I am willing to admit, even after your comment :D

Its a great start, but looks like it can only search in descriptions? When trying to search for account names it did not return anything.

It would be great to have some quick filters and sorting in the table headers. There sure must be some bootstrap component for that. It seems like you are already using https://github.com/drvic10k/bootstrap-sortable, maybe enabling it for all the tables would be a good start

[JC5]

https://docs.firefly-iii.org/how-to/firefly-iii/features/search/

[molnarti]

nice :) now i feel ashamed for missing that. it would be great id was a way to save queries for later use. for example has_any_category:false more:200 type:withdrawal is something i will use quite often and saving it somewhere in my notes is a bit cumbersome ;)

[JC5]

Haha not a problem! For those kinds of things, I just bookmark the URL 😋

[grif-m]

Hi James,

Search feature is good, but I think enabling sorting in all tables would be useful, especially when you analyze reports and drill down to caregory and want to analyze your transactions e.g. based on amount. Would it be hard to do?

Best regards,
Alexey.

[JC5]

It's on my list to do, yes 😊