Search within a library

This page collects requirements on the search within a library. Typically, a user uses the search bar to trigger a search in the current library. They can also open up a popup to search across all libraries.

Requirements on search regarding a fetcher are not covered here. Requirements on the syntax itself are not covered here, oo.

Requirements sources

Indirectly, the requirements are listed at https://docs.jabref.org/finding-sorting-and-cleaning-entries/search. This page tries to collect issues from users as requirements to enable better tracing in the code.

Search for the name of the first authors

req~jabgui.search.syntax.author-first-name~1

Issue: #10490

Enable to quickly search by first author name.

Example BibTeX entry:

@article{art_1,
  author = {John Demo}
}

@article{art_2,
  author = {John Demoing}
}

When searching for “author” “Demo” should match art_1 only.

It is possible by regular expressions, but the user asked for “quickly”.

Search for citation key

req~jabgui.search.syntax.citation-key~1

Issue: #10490

Enable to quickly search for a citation key.

Currently, no implementation is linked