Advanced search on field "creator" using name + first name

mdurot
Hello,
I'd like to search for references using creator name + first name.
When using the advanced search tool, the search on the creator field only works on the name or on the first name, but not both together.
Did I miss any specific syntax to search by name + first name ?
Thanks for any help
  • mdurot
    edited January 13, 2010
    OK, I've just find out how to do it...

    % is the wildcard character for Zotero searches. So querying for e.g. "A% Einstein" creator will return all references from Albert Einstein, even if the first name has been entered as an abbrevation.

    The use of this wildcard could maybe be documented there : http://www.zotero.org/support/finding_and_sorting ?
  • Tjowens
    Thanks for the message, and thanks for suggesting improvements to our documentation. I added a section on wild card searches to http://www.zotero.org/support/finding_and_sorting

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