Zotero 7: please change bibtex key position

seredes

I love Zotero 7, a significant improvement over Zotero 6. There is one issue, though. In Zotero 6, I could click on an item and see the Bibtex key at the top of the right pane. That allowed me to quickly go through a stack of newly imported papers, checking the bibtex keys for potential duplicates. In addition, I could simply click on the key to copy it. Now the key is in the bottom field of the right pane, which means I frequently have to scroll down to see it. I find this extremely inconvenient. Could you please bring the bibtex key back to the top?

enozkan

In Zotero 7, you can pin sections. Right click on the Citation Key section to see the pin option. This may help.

John_muccigrosso

I agree that the key would be better placed at top. I often need to grab it and hate having to scroll or click to get to it.

seredes

Thank you, I wasn't aware that could pin section. From the same menu, collapsing all sections also helps.

dstillman

We’ll be making it possible for Zotero 7 plugins to create new fields in the Info section in a future update. BBT will use that.

seredes

Thanks!

phamdn

it sucks to have citation key at the bottom :(

poettli

@phamdn Have you checked the latest betas? (but the citation key doesn't update when displaying different items. Only the key of the first selected item is always displayed. Not sure if it is a Zotero problem or a BBT one)

dstillman

Plugins are able to create custom info fields in Zotero 7.0.10, now available. For the status of BBT's support for that, check with the BBT developer.

poettli

Sure. Thanks dstillman

phamdn

@poettli Zotero 7.0.10 has it on top now, but it stucks with the first item, all documents have the same citation key, what a funny bug :))

poettli

Yes, we need to report to the dev on GitHub.
Edit: Reported here https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/issues/3074