Including Subcategory entries in parent Category

avera646

My Zotero, like I'm assuming many others, is heavily organized with folders and subfolders and yes, sub-sub-folders (thank you for this feature!).

I was wondering if there was any way to automatically include entries that appear in subcategores in the main category.

For example:

CATEGORY 1
SUB-CATEGORY 1 (includes a, b, c)
SUB-CATEGORY 2 (includes d, e, f)
SUB-SUB-CATEGORY 1 (includes g, h, i)
SUB-CATEGORY 3 (includes j, k, l).

It would be great if when I clicked on CATEGORY 1, I could see ALL the entries that appear in that folder and in its subfolders (a-l), and that when I click on SUB-CATEGORY 2, that I could see d, e, f as well as g, h, i.

Is there a way to do this other than to manually drag items into the parent folder periodically (and risk duplicates, etc...)? Would this be useful for anyone else?

adamsmith

set the recursiveCollections hidden preference to true:
https://www.zotero.org/support/preferences/hidden_preferences

I think there are plans to make this more visible, but some UI issues related to that.

(Just to make sure you're understanding how collections work, though, they are _not_ folders and dragging an item to another collection does _not_ create a duplicate: it stores the same item in both collections)

avera646

That's perfect! Thanks for letting me know that.

And thanks for the clarification, that's great. I don't want duplicates, I'd be happy to just have the same item stored in multiple locations.