Incomplete search results in Collections

YaYaTurre · 2024-10-27T08:06:31+00:00

I feel like I must be doing something wrong, but I cannot figure it out. Here's the scenario: when conducting a Quick Search using a Creator's name, all of the results are correctly found when I have "My Library" selected. However, if I conduct the same search while a particular Collection selected, only 1 result appears, despite the fact that all of the results are in the selected Collection. I want to be able to select a Collection where I know certain items are and only search there, but this does not find everything. I always have to conduct the searches from My Library, which runs the risk of producing too many results. Any advice? Thx

jeapordy · 2024-10-27T10:24:09+00:00

Sounds like part of several search issues with zotero

enozkan · 2024-10-28T05:24:30+00:00

Any chance you are looking for an item under a subcollection? The default is that you do not see hits from a subcollection under your selected collection (that's my preference, often).

If you want subcollection hits to show, go to the top menu, and choose View > Show Items from Subcollections.

YaYaTurre · 2024-10-28T08:26:26+00:00

Thank you so much enozkan! You solved my problem. The items were indeed in a subcollection, and I did not know about that setting.