Can saved searches be moved into collections?

delius

One can move a collection into another collection as a subcollection by simple drag and drop. While saved searches behave like collections in other respects, it seems that they can not be dragged and dropped into other collections. Is that by design or a bug?

adamsmith

Neither really. It's a feature that's been requested a bunch and I think is planned, but hasn't been implemented. Obviously saved searches can't behave exactly like collections -- you can't really drag one into another one, e.g., -- so it's a completely separate implementation

agam2222

As a workaround, you can create a collection (with the search keywords) and drag and drop saved search results (from the middle items pane) to this collection. But it is only a collection of results at this specific time (not a dynamic search collection) and you will need to update it when you add new related sources.

delius

Thank you very much for your answers.
Regarding dragging one search into another one: I had not thought about that until you mentioned it, but it would make sense for that to mean creating a new search that combines the parent search with the child search via an AND operation. If there is a discussion of this drag and drop for saved searches somewhere, I could make this suggestion there.

kassiansun

I have an idea on implementing this: attach the saved search to a real collection, and "materialize" the search result (manually) into the real collection. It's like the Steam's collection, you can either dynamic search it, or materialize it (and then manually manage it).

Another method is to make saved search collectable under collections, so you'll be able to find them easily in the normal navigation tree, while currently they're all at the bottom and impossible to do any kind of organization.

Modify the collection tree to attach saved searches directly sounds a bad idea to me, this will make significant changes to the collection structure for a edge use case.