[suggestion] maintain search process

kzssc

current behaviour:
during a library-wide search (not in collection), importing a new item will lead to the dismissal of the search and return to the root/main directory of the library. The newly imported item is then highlighted.

usecase:
when updating references by importing new citation file and then merging the old entry with the new one. As the search is dismissed, I need to run the same search again to sort out other entries.

i suppose a workaround would to create a collection with the items that i intend to sort out and then import/merge within that collection. But this wouldn't work if the collection is a smart collection as the newly imported item might not fit the search criteria.


update: it seems that the search process is lost/dismissed whenever there's a change in the collection of an entry, regardless of whether is it import or not, and doing so from a collection or not. Basically, any change of collection in a search will render the search process lost.

dstillman

Are you talking about a new item that matches the search or doesn't match the search? If it doesn't match the search, it has to clear the search in order to show and highlight the item.

But if it's clearing the search for an item that matches, we should be able to fix that.