advanced search: using AND and OR at the same time ?

ftr · December 9, 2009

I want to find all the entries that have ANY of several tags (Internet, ICT, email, web2.0) AND a single tag, "country study",
i.e. (Internet OR ICT OR email OR web2.0) AND country study.
Is this possible in a single search?

Or do I have to do it stepwise, first searching on any of the Internet, ICT, email, web2.0 tags and then a search on "country study" within the saved search?

dstillman · December 9, 2009

The latter. You can do it by chaining searches, either by specifying the the first search as the source ("Collection" condition in 2.0b7.6, "Saved Search" condition in the next release) or by using quick search within the saved search.

There may be some bugs with chained searches, though, so double-check the results.

charpent · December 11, 2009

That's also on my wishlist... I tought about it and came to the (tentative) conclusion that a very usefu feature would be 1) some sort of stable view of the tables in the Zotero database (in order to accomodate a changing tables' structure), and 2) a way to query this structure via SQL. More on this later, when I'll have time to prepare and present a consistent whishlist.