Incomplete search results in Collections

YaYaTurre

I feel like I must be doing something wrong, but I cannot figure it out. Here's the scenario: when conducting a Quick Search using a Creator's name, all of the results are correctly found when I have "My Library" selected. However, if I conduct the same search while a particular Collection selected, only 1 result appears, despite the fact that all of the results are in the selected Collection. I want to be able to select a Collection where I know certain items are and only search there, but this does not find everything. I always have to conduct the searches from My Library, which runs the risk of producing too many results. Any advice? Thx

agoldenvein

Sounds like part of several search issues with zotero

enozkan

Any chance you are looking for an item under a subcollection? The default is that you do not see hits from a subcollection under your selected collection (that's my preference, often).

If you want subcollection hits to show, go to the top menu, and choose View > Show Items from Subcollections.

YaYaTurre

Thank you so much enozkan! You solved my problem. The items were indeed in a subcollection, and I did not know about that setting.