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. 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 --