Set name displayed for a pdf attachment

sserebrinsky · 2025-01-26T12:48:16+00:00

I updated to Zotero 7.0.11 a couple of hours ago.
I have just added an item from ScienceDirect.
The pdf for the item shows as "ScienceDirect Full Text PDF", which is the contents of a field "Title" as shown in the preview on the right pane.
I see I can change the contents of that field, so the name displayed in the central pane would also change. But I don't mean to do that. I mean that the name displayed is taken from the Filename, which is correctly set to what I want.
Can that be done?

sserebrinsky · 2025-01-26T13:26:36+00:00

When I add a reference for which there is a pdf available, by default Zotero downloads the pdf in its data directory and adds the file to the item.
I want instead that the file is downloaded in a directory of my choosing, and that a link to the file is added.
I managed to do this with
1. Install plugin ZotMoov.
2. Go to Edit > Settings > ZotMoov.
Set the Directory to Move/Copy Files To to my custom folder.
Enable Automatically Move/Copy Files When Added.
Set File Behavior to Move (this removes the file from Zotero's data directory).
3. Go to Edit > Settings > General
Make sure Automatically attach associated PDFs and other files when saving items is checked.

After doing this, the Title field is automatically set to the same as the File name, so it is also what is displayed. It works for my objective, although in a somewhat "contrived" way.
Can something similar be attained without my specific configuration of files, dirs, links? Perhaps with plugin Actions & Tags.

tim820 · 2025-01-27T01:36:56+00:00

Zotmoov (in Zotero v7) indeed replicates the previous behaviour of Zotfile (in Zotero v6) by setting the attachment title to be the same as the filename. The only difference is that Zotero's new file renaming scheme is used to set the filename, and therefore the attachment title also (Zotfile had its own file renaming scheme).

sserebrinsky · 2025-01-27T11:32:00+00:00

@tim820 I understand you are confirming that what I see in my post #2 https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/484362/#Comment_484362 is what I should see.

Do you know the answer to my questions?
In post #1: Can that be done?
In post #2: Can something similar...?

I now emphasize the want for having displayed the Filename instead of the Title, since if I manually change the Filename (from within Zotero), the Title is not automatically updated to match the change.