Full text search: Two problems / opening several pdfs in one window of preview
Hello!
(1) It seems that you cannot search within a saved search. If I select a saved search, and then search in the search box, nothing is returned. (If I copy the citations from the saved search into a standard collection, the search returns results.) [This is for a full text search.]
(2) If I search for "semi-structured", the search returns results for "semi" and "structured". Is there a way to search for "semi-structured". [Again, full text search.]
A related question: Suppose I want to open a set of pdfs together in one window of Preview (on OS X), so that I can search them together, how can I do this? If I highlight several citations, and choose "view pdf", then they open in separate windows.
I suppose I could write a plugin, that returned an appropriate command line command? If so, how do I get the full storage path for an attachment? Is there a simpler solution?
(The point of this is as follows: Opening several pdfs together in one Preview window means they can all be searched together, which is much easier than having to search 10 documents separately.)
Thanks!
(1) It seems that you cannot search within a saved search. If I select a saved search, and then search in the search box, nothing is returned. (If I copy the citations from the saved search into a standard collection, the search returns results.) [This is for a full text search.]
(2) If I search for "semi-structured", the search returns results for "semi" and "structured". Is there a way to search for "semi-structured". [Again, full text search.]
A related question: Suppose I want to open a set of pdfs together in one window of Preview (on OS X), so that I can search them together, how can I do this? If I highlight several citations, and choose "view pdf", then they open in separate windows.
I suppose I could write a plugin, that returned an appropriate command line command? If so, how do I get the full storage path for an attachment? Is there a simpler solution?
(The point of this is as follows: Opening several pdfs together in one Preview window means they can all be searched together, which is much easier than having to search 10 documents separately.)
Thanks!
2) You mean in attachment content--> contains in the advanced search? Those should be prhase searches. Are you sure it's not working? It does for me.
(2) Here, I meant the quick search. The quick search cannot search by phrase?
The advanced search works (thanks!!), but because we have shared groups, we cannot use the advanced search, but we have to set up saved searches, which are hard to use if you want to try out different search terms.
2) put it in quotation marks
If you now search for something using quick search that's only in the attachment content, you'll get an empty search result. Does that make sense?
I believe checking the "include parent and child" option in the advanced search/saved search dialog would change that behavior, though haven't tested.
Do you have any thoughts on how I could get the URIs for attachements, e.g. by way of a plug in?
Bjoern
that's currently the easiest option, though getting to this via a right click menu from Zotero is generally planned, I believe.
Thanks!!
Bjoern