Collection and subcollection

jiangwy99

When using zotero, I want to use subcollection as a classification of papers from collection. However, after classifying I can still see all of the papers from the collection, and in this way I cannot make sure whether I have classified all of the papers into subcollections, at the same time I cannot see which have not been classified. In zotero ios beta I can see a setting called 'show items from subcollections'. I thought it could solve my problem, but when I change the setting, it did not work. As a result, is it possible to offer a setting of whether to show items from subcollections in the view of collection which can work, both in windows and ios?

dstillman

Not really sure what you're saying here. Collections are like photo albums or music playlists — items can appear in one or more, but they always show up in My Library. That's the basic design of all library-based apps.

You can see items not in any collections in Unfiled Items.

"Show Items from Subcollections" shows items in a collection if the item appears in any descendant collections of that collection.

https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#the_zotero_collections_model

jiangwy99

For example, I have a collection named PLM, with a subcollection named PLM Models. In PLM I collect some papers, and I want to put those about models in the subcollection. After holding down shift and move the items to PLM Models, I can still see them in the PLM collection. In fact, for convenience when classifying papers, I want to have model papers only be seen in PLM Models subcollection and cannot be seen in PLM collection. Have I stated my requirement clearly?

jiangwy99

I have solved.