Feature request: Add Year (date) to Zotero Advanced Search results

AdeleEff
Hello, this is driving me nuts. Advanced search (tiny magnifying glass icon), which is so helpful in so many ways, does not show Year of items in search results.

This is important! Timing of papers is important; the most recent papers are often what we want. Or maybe we're doing a chronological review. Can a column for this be added?

Thanks.
  • dstillman
    While this is planned, note that a trivial workaround is just to save the search — or keep an extra search that you double-click to edit — and sort in the main window.
  • AdeleEff
    Theoretically trivial but very time-consuming! Looking forward to seeing the Date column added. Thanks.
  • dstillman
    It's not really time-consuming. As I say, you can just leave a saved search that you always use as a temporary search. Then it's just a question of double-clicking the saved search instead of single-clicking the magnifying glass icon, and double-clicking again to change the search instead of just making the changes in the same window.
  • AdeleEff
    It's important to compare all the results by date. For example, I may not want the most recent paper answering to a tag, one a couple of years back might be the more complete review.

    Opening the entries one by one from the search results -- you'd need a pad and pen handy to note the date of each entry. What if you have 30 entries?

    Computers are very good at this kind of sorting. Looking forward to this new feature.
  • adamsmith
    If you're looking at single items, you're not understanding dstillman's answer. Read it again closely -- it's about using saved searches, which work exactly like advanced search, but display the results in the form of a Zotero collection -- and post here if you have further questions.
  • AdeleEff
    How do I make a saved search a sub-folder to an existing folder?
  • dstillman
    That's not currently possible.
  • ES
    I think it could be a valid search/inquiry to perform, that is either a given year or an interval say 2020-2022 combined with material type for instance Conference Papers. But it does not seem to be possible?
  • AdeleEff
    Any possibility the date column will be added to Advanced Search? Its utility would be very much enhanced.
  • erazlogo
    Here is what happens when you don't have a "year" column in search results. Here I am searching for several versions of a governance document that was revised over the years.
    https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u40/6skm3ba3mfzw21gfmnqf.png
    I know the workaround--to save the search. But if you already have 200+ saved searches, and many cases like the above, it is not practical to have a saved search for every document that was revised several times. Please add a year column to advanced search results.
  • dstillman
    We added support for customizing columns in the advanced search window in Zotero 7. Right-click on the column header, the same as in the main window.
  • erazlogo
    Amazing! Thank you very much.
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