Search for notes within a collection

tchau83
I want to generate reports only from notes (excluding the parent items) within a certain collection. To do that, I tried to search for the notes before generating a report from the search results.

However, the advanced search does not work. I tried Item Type->is->Note and Collection->is->mycollection. This does not return any results.

Any ideas on how to do the search? Thanks
  • dstillman
    edited October 8, 2012
    It's ugly, but you can do it by chaining two saved searches together:

    1) [Collection] [is] ["Foo"] with "Include parent and child items of matching items" checked

    2) [Saved Search] [is] [Search #1] and [Item Type] [is] [Note].

    Then a Select All in the second saved search will select only the child notes.

    (This is a result of child items not technically existing in collection themselves behind the scenes.)
  • tchau83
    I see.. Got it working, thanks!
  • mql1985
    Hi, just imported from EndNote, save problem. But it seems the new version of Zotero removed the [Saved Search] [is] option?
  • adamsmith
    It just doesn't differentiate between "Collection" and "Saved Search" for this purpose anymore, so you can select the Saved Search under
    Collection -- is --
  • Zorozero
    Fyi. See also https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/35712/removing-pdfs-to-free-up-space
  • Zorozero
    Hi there,
    I cannot see the [Saved Search] option, is it still there in v.6.0.3.2?

    How would you "chain" it so that you can select the notes, not the top entries? I can search child notes, but then the top entry is active, unlike when I do the same trick with attached PDFs.

    Regards
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