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I’m one of those people who uses Scrivener for more than one manuscript at time, so when I search for a stuff I end up with a bunch of results, but I don’t know what folder they are in. Is there any way to add the parent item of a document into the search results and then group the search results by that parent(s) example. For example:
That could make the results very messy, and a little inaccurate. The way the Mac version gets around this is to have a tooltip showing the path to the document if you hover the mouse over an item in the search results. I’m nowhere near a Windows machine at the moment, so I can’t double-check to see if this is in there just yet, so you could try it, and if it doesn’t work, it’s a bug.
If you aren’t already using Labels for some other purpose in your projects, you could assign a different label with different colours to each manuscript. If you then have show label colour in icons selected you’ll be able to see at a glance which manuscript your results come from.
Another thing you can do, in this particular case as it looks like you’ve got a master draft and then older revisions located elsewhere in the Binder, is to set your search criteria (click on the magnifying glass to get options) to “Search Draft Only”. Of course that doesn’t work so well if you specifically want to search in an older revision, but we’ll be adding a feature to help with that in the future, which will let you constrain the search using your current binder selection.
Not necessarily messy because I envision the results doing what the binder does now and giving you the ability to collapse the tree. There could even be an option for the tree structure to be show or not shown.
Guess I’ll have to wait for the tool tip to show the file path then. I’m using labels to mark off what the piece of text is. That is, notes, scene, etc.
