The folder search function (/filter collection) is very useful, thanks.
I'm wondering if anyone knows a solution, please, to my new folder-search-related issue?...
Quite often a folder I search/filter for is the parent folder for X amount of nested folders, which I want to view the contents of. The issue I'm having is that none of the nested folders show up within the filtered view. I have to press the cross in the search-filter box to see what nested folders are inside the found-folder! Fortunately Zotero keeps the selected parent folder highlighted. But I just wondered if there's an easy way to keep the parent folder 'filtered' whilst viewing its nested folders?
It would be especially useful when I've filtered to 2 or 3 similarly named parent folders, but I'm not sure which of them contains the nested-folders I'm after.
No way to do this currently other than clearing the search (which, by the way, you can also do with the Esc key). We show ancestor collections in gray because that shows the hierarchy leading to the matching collections. The same isn't true for descendant collections, but we could consider showing those as well. It might annoy some people with deep collection hierarchies, though, by pushing other results far down the list.
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I'm wondering if anyone knows a solution, please, to my new folder-search-related issue?...
Quite often a folder I search/filter for is the parent folder for X amount of nested folders, which I want to view the contents of. The issue I'm having is that none of the nested folders show up within the filtered view. I have to press the cross in the search-filter box to see what nested folders are inside the found-folder! Fortunately Zotero keeps the selected parent folder highlighted. But I just wondered if there's an easy way to keep the parent folder 'filtered' whilst viewing its nested folders?
It would be especially useful when I've filtered to 2 or 3 similarly named parent folders, but I'm not sure which of them contains the nested-folders I'm after.
No way to do this currently other than clearing the search (which, by the way, you can also do with the Esc key). We show ancestor collections in gray because that shows the hierarchy leading to the matching collections. The same isn't true for descendant collections, but we could consider showing those as well. It might annoy some people with deep collection hierarchies, though, by pushing other results far down the list.
I guess ideally, to keep everyone happy, having various options to the folder-filtering function would be most useful, please.
So, an option to show/not show:
- Ascendant folder name(s)
- Ascendant folder name(s) and contents.
- Descendant folder name(s)
- Descendant folder name(s) & contents.
(I'm sure there are other filtering options too that would prove useful).