Search in folders and subfoders

UMNPEDSGI · October 30, 2017

Hi,

Is there any way to make search in a folder include all the entities in the subfolders?
If not (I could not find any way to do it), it may be very helpful if it would be considered in the future.

For example I have the following folders/subfolders:

Liver diseases
Autoimmune hepatitis
Viral hepatitis

It would be nice if I can search in Liver diseases folder and get results from both subfolders.

Thank you,
Boris

adamsmith · October 30, 2017

see the recursive collections hidden pref:
https://www.zotero.org/support/preferences/hidden_preferences#general_preferences

UMNPEDSGI · October 30, 2017

Sweet! Thank you very much @adamsmith.

May be you can also know if there is a way to open/close all the triangles in the citations list (i.e. See only main headline of the citation w/o pdfs, other files attached to it), but do it in multiple entries simultaneously?

adamsmith · October 30, 2017

press the + and - key on your keyboard while having an item in the middle panel selected.

adamsmith · October 30, 2017

Some other useful and hard to find tips here:
https://www.zotero.org/support/tips_and_tricks

UMNPEDSGI · October 30, 2017

Thank you @adamsmith, your very quick responses and in depth knowledge about zotero are very valued. Appreciate your time and commitment.

UMNPEDSGI · November 1, 2017

@adamsmith, I noticed that while Shift + works as intended, shift - does not.

I am on MacBook Pro, Mac OS 10.13.1 17B46a)

Any thoughts why this would be?

adamsmith · November 1, 2017

no shift for -: it's the + and the - sign. It's just that typing + requires shift on a standard keyboard, - doesn't.

UMNPEDSGI · November 1, 2017

Duh! Now I feel very stupid :( - thanks!