Search for notes within a collection

tchau83

I want to generate reports only from notes (excluding the parent items) within a certain collection.To do that, I tried to search for the notes before generating a report from the search results.

However, the advanced search does not work.I tried Item Type->is->Note and Collection->is->mycollection.This does not return any results.

Any ideas on how to do the search?Thanks

dstillman

It's ugly, but you can do it by chaining two saved searches together:

1) [Collection] [is] ["Foo"] with "Include parent and child items of matching items" checked

2) [Saved Search] [is] [Search #1] and [Item Type] [is] [Note].

Then a Select All in the second saved search will select only the child notes.

(This is a result of child items not technically existing in collection themselves behind the scenes.)

tchau83

I see..Got it working, thanks!

mql1985

Hi, just imported from EndNote, save problem.188BET靠谱吗But it seems the new version of Zotero removed the [Saved Search] [is] option?

adamsmith

It just doesn't differentiate between "Collection" and "Saved Search" for this purpose anymore, so you can select the Saved Search under
Collection -- is --

Zorozero

Fyi.See also 188BET靠谱吗https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/35712/removing-pdfs-to-free-up-space

Zorozero

Hi there,
I cannot see the [Saved Search] option, is it still there in v.6.0.3.2?

How would you "chain" it so that you can select the notes, not the top entries?I can search child notes, but then the top entry is active, unlike when I do the same trick with attached PDFs.

Regards