Upgrade StorageAdvanced (saved) search for Notes
I am trying to filter out for Notes and Child notes in a specific folder.
However, the search pulls some items which have no child note.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4u5abh161ord3ut/Notes.PNG?dl=0
I also tried the method suggested in Zotero documentation, but that ignores Child notes. I personally would like to pull child and stand alone notes.
"eate an Advanced Search for “Item Type” “is” “Note” and “Tag” “is” “chapter one”. Save the Advanced Search, then right-click the Saved Search and choose “Generate Report from Saved Search…”. This will create a report including only the notes tagged “chapter one”. "
https://www.zotero.org/support/reports
However, the search pulls some items which have no child note.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4u5abh161ord3ut/Notes.PNG?dl=0
I also tried the method suggested in Zotero documentation, but that ignores Child notes. I personally would like to pull child and stand alone notes.
"eate an Advanced Search for “Item Type” “is” “Note” and “Tag” “is” “chapter one”. Save the Advanced Search, then right-click the Saved Search and choose “Generate Report from Saved Search…”. This will create a report including only the notes tagged “chapter one”. "
https://www.zotero.org/support/reports
Match "all" of the following:"Collection" "is" "C1"
"Item Type" "is" "Note"
Check mark for: "Include parent and child items of matching items"
Save this advanced search with name "C2".
If you click on one item in the middle pane and then use "Edit" -> "Select All" (Ctrl/Cmd+A), you will see that both notes, child notes, and parent items of child notes are matched.
It's more complicated to only match notes and child notes without their parent items. I wouldn't recommend doing this. If you really need it, create a new advanced search:
Match "all" of the following:"Collection" "is" "C2"
"Item Type" "is" "Note"
No check mark for: "Include parent and child items of matching items"
Save this advanced search with name "C3".
Note that "C1" is a collection, "C2" and "C3" are saved searches.
Edited: The third line in the second box originally read: "Child Note" "does not contain" "%". This is rather obscure and might be confusing. The line now reads: "Item Type" "is" "Note". See dstillman's comment below for an explanation why this works.
- Create one search for [Collection] [is] [C1] with "Include parent and child items of matching items" checked. Save it as C2.
- Create as second search [Collection] [is] [C2] and [Item Type] [is] [Note] and save it as C3.
To explain why this works, child items aren't technically members of collections themselves, so when you say [Collection] [is] [C1], you're only matching parent items. By creating an intermediate search with [Collection] [is] [C1] and "Include parent and child items of matching items", you're creating a parent scope that includes child items, and then you can just search for all notes within that scope.
(We should be able to make this easier in the future.)
Thanks but I am a little confused with the parameters. What is [C1]?
I can select "Collection" "is" but in the last part I list list of my collections. I don't know what C1 is