Managing subcollections and parent collections in searches [closed; solved]

iagogv
edited yesterday at 7:00am
Is there some way to search those items in subcollections of a collection but not belonging to the parent collection?

Thanks!
  • iagogv
    And related. View > Show Items from Subcollections shows the items from all the subcollections. Is there some way to view the items from subcollections, but excluding some of them?
  • aborel
    I don't think it is possible for an item to belong to a subcollection but not the parent(s).

    Can you explain what you want to achieve with these informations?
  • dstillman
    It's possible. To find them, you can just do an advanced search for [Collection] [is] [subcollection] and [Collection] [is not] [parent collection].
  • AbeJellinek
    edited May 13, 2025
    @aborel: It is. That's why View > Show Items from Subcollections exists.

    @iagogv: If you only need to match one subcollection, you can do two conditions: Collection is [subcollection]; Collection is not [parent collection]. If you need to match all the subcollections, you'd probably need to chain two saved searches:

    1. Search 1: Collection is [parent collection], "Search subcollections" checked
    2. Search 2: Collection is Search 1, Collection is not [parent collection], "Search subcollections" unchecked

    Haven't tested, but that should work.
  • aborel
    Thanks for clearing my misconception :-)
  • iagogv
    @AbeJellinek

    Wow! That's a great solution (the two-chained-searches).

    Many thanks!
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