advanced search not working with the attachments content

m.lana

hi,
apparently in the advanced search it is not possible to combine the search for a creator name + the search for a given word in its attachments content: the combination gives 0 results even if the author is present and its attachments contain the searched word.
any idea?
or this is by design?
thanks
Maurizio

mrsieber

Hi Maurizio,

I had the same problem; I thought it might be a fault in my collection structure, but I see you encountered the same issue. So would it be a beneficial feature, right?

Can anybody help?

Cheers,
Marcel

m.lana

hi Marcel,
in Italia we say "mal comune mezzo gaudio" (literally: evil shared, half joy) :-)
in fact i was a little sad of being alone with my problem
hope for a word from the developers!
:-)))
Maurizio

dstillman

Searches match individual items, and parent items (with creators) and attachments (with content) are separate items. This has advantages for various workflows, but it can make something like this a little more complicated. We'll improve this in the future, but for now, you can do this by using two searches:

1) A saved search with one of the conditions, plus "Include parent and child items of matching items"

2) Another with [Collection] [is] [first saved search] and the second condition

m.lana

ahaa! this is one clever reason f for saving searches!
it works - obviously, but it is always a feast when Zotero shines.
all the people i teach to use Zotero, end saying: how did i do it before?

here we have the intersection of bibliographical research with text analysis: terrific!
Maurizio