Sorting by attachements
Greetings,
I would like to distinguish between items which have a snapshot and those which have an associated PDF. Both "classes" of items are "registered" in Zotero as "with attachments" as evidenced by the blue dot.
I am looking for items which do not have an associated PDF (and simply looking at the blue dot does not tell me what I need to know).
I thought that I could filter via saved search. So, I tried using the "Attachment File Type" option and set it to IS NOT pdf. ( I want to see the items without a PDF.) Yet Items with a PDF attached are still showing up in the search results. Am I approaching this wrong?
In my search results, I get items:
* with PDFs (solo)
* Items with Snapshots (solo)
* Items with both Snapshots and PDFs
* Items with notes and PDFs
* Items with notes (solo)
* Items with notes and Snapshots
I would like to distinguish between items which have a snapshot and those which have an associated PDF. Both "classes" of items are "registered" in Zotero as "with attachments" as evidenced by the blue dot.
I am looking for items which do not have an associated PDF (and simply looking at the blue dot does not tell me what I need to know).
I thought that I could filter via saved search. So, I tried using the "Attachment File Type" option and set it to IS NOT pdf. ( I want to see the items without a PDF.) Yet Items with a PDF attached are still showing up in the search results. Am I approaching this wrong?
In my search results, I get items:
* with PDFs (solo)
* Items with Snapshots (solo)
* Items with both Snapshots and PDFs
* Items with notes and PDFs
* Items with notes (solo)
* Items with notes and Snapshots
You can do what you want in two steps:
1) Create a search for [Attachment File Type] [is] [PDF], check "Include parent and child items of matching items" and "Show only top-level items", and then save it as "Items with PDFs".
2) Create another search for [Collection] [is not] [Items with PDFs] and check "Show only top-level items".