Basic search functionality on iOS: two words

burgarth

I have a question regarding regarding search on iOS. It seems that if I search for single words (from title, or name of author) the search works well, but when I put two words to narrow down then nothing is found. Is this missing functionality or do I need to combine words with logical operators?

ftv88

I also wonder about this, can anyone help please?

jeremyvancleve

yes, some help on the search syntax would be great

burgarth

@michalrentka any chance to implement this? It's currently almost impossible for me to find my files on iOS without this basic search option. Or am I overlooking some syntax?

michalrentka

Hi, I can reproduce the issue. I'll fix this in near future.

burgarth

Thanks!!!!

burgarth

Hi @michalrentka thanks for the update of search in iOS. It still does not behave how I would expect it. Say I have a paper jointly written by Foo and Bar. In the desktop app, if I type Foo, I see all papers by Foo, and if I then add Bar, it narrows down the search to Foo and Bar's paper. In iOS, if I type Foo and Bar, it widens the search to papers which are written by Foo or by Bar. Or should I put some logical operators here?

jeremyvancleve

This issue persists in 1.0.4 build 1, which from the release notes, seems to close this issue, https://github.com/zotero/zotero-ios/issues/500, which references this forum post.

As @burgarth says, if you put two author names separated by a space in the search bar, you receive results that match *either* author, not results that match *both* authors, which is what the desktop app does and is what is typical in search interfaces. Putting quotation marks around each term (i.e., changing /termx termy/ to /"termx" "termy"/) doesn't change the results.

michalrentka

Sorry about the issue, it'll be fixed in next beta release today. Should be finally right this time!

burgarth

Thanks! But it now says in TestFlight: „Tester removed“???

dstillman

Re: "Tester removed": https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/410421/#Comment_410421

(But the new beta build for this issue isn't available yet.)

jeremyvancleve

I’m seeing the “tester removed” message too. Could I get another invite to the beta?

Thanks!

dstillman

There are no invites anymore — you just join via the link.

jeremyvancleve

thanks @dstillman !

jeremyvancleve

the update works! omg, searching is so much better! many thanks!

ftv88

It does, excellent, thank you michalrentka!