Managing subcollections and parent collections in searches

iagogv

Is there some way to search those items in subcollections of a collection but not belonging to the parent collection?

Thanks!

iagogv

And related. View > Show Items from Subcollections shows the items from all the subcollections. Is there some way to view the items from subcollections, but excluding some of them?

aborel

I don't think it is possible for an item to belong to a subcollection but not the parent(s).

Can you explain what you want to achieve with these informations?

dstillman

It's possible. To find them, you can just do an advanced search for [Collection] [is] [subcollection] and [Collection] [is not] [parent collection].

AbeJellinek

@aborel: It is. That's why View > Show Items from Subcollections exists.

@iagogv: If you only need to match one subcollection, you can do two conditions: Collection is [subcollection]; Collection is not [parent collection]. If you need to match all the subcollections, you'd probably need to chain two saved searches:

1. Search 1: Collection is [parent collection], "Search subcollections" checked
2. Search 2: Collection is Search 1, Collection is not [parent collection], "Search subcollections" unchecked

Haven't tested, but that should work.

aborel

Thanks for clearing my misconception :-)

iagogv

@AbeJellinek

Wow! That's a great solution (the two-chained-searches).

Many thanks!