you mean in quick search? I don't think that would work systematically, no -- you see the selected collection on the left, it'd be very confusing to have items that are not actually visible in that collection suddenly become visible in a quick search.
You can, of course, turn recursive collections on and then (I'm pretty sure) collection-level quick searches would include all subcollections
https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#recursive_collections
Yes, in quick search. In Windows Explorer searches results are returned for the current folder and all folders beneath it. I was wondering whether this was an option that could be turned on for zotero.
yeah, but Windows explorer displays search results with a different layout, whereas quick search basically works like a filter, both functionally and in terms of display, which is why I'm saying it'd be confusing if a search could add items to the display.
Just to be clear, nothing about the search would change here. As adamsmith says, the quick search is a filter of the current view, and you toggle recursiveCollections if you want to change that.
The change we'd make around this would only be making that setting more easily accessible.
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You can, of course, turn recursive collections on and then (I'm pretty sure) collection-level quick searches would include all subcollections
https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#recursive_collections
Yes, in quick search. In Windows Explorer searches results are returned for the current folder and all folders beneath it. I was wondering whether this was an option that could be turned on for zotero.
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The change we'd make around this would only be making that setting more easily accessible.