Move files from a saved search

[mark.cloyed]

I have experienced an unusual  behavior in both  Vault Professional 2016 and 2017.  I have a saved search of files in a particular state.  I need to move these files from their various folders into a particular folder.  When I try to move them via drag and drop, my cursor shows them creating shortcuts, rather than moving the files, and if I do drop them I get shortcuts.  If I go to the folder of the file, I can move it.  The interesting part is if I do the above mentioned search as a general search, I can drag and drop the results and it does move them.  Is this the expected behavior?  It would be easier to have a saved search to refer to, rather than having to build the search every time.  

Thanks,
Mark

[Olaf.Górski · Accepted solution]

Hello Mark,

The difference between a basic search and a saved search is that the first one is looking through the folders itself and the the second one is a kind of collection of shortcuts. Therefore moving a document from a saved search to any folder is actually moving a shortcut and not a document.

You can, however, use in a saved search a right click > "Go To Folder". This will switch the view to the current folder of your document and then you can move it ad expected.

Does it help you?

[CadUser46]

I came here looking for an answer to this retarded behaviour and found exactly what I expected.

I can programmatically build the search folders on app launch but the use/benefit is voided by this behaviour. grrr!  

[Anonymous]

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@Olaf.Górski wrote:

Hello Mark,

The difference between a basic search and a saved search is that the first one is looking through the folders itself and the the second one is a kind of collection of shortcuts. Therefore moving a document from a saved search to any folder is actually moving a shortcut and not a document.

You can, however, use in a saved search a right click > "Go To Folder". This will switch the view to the current folder of your document and then you can move it ad expected.

Does it help you?

so, only document by document? Going forth and back between views?

thx