Undo Create Parent Item

mjthoraval

In the same way as it is possible to "Undo Retrieve Metadata", I would like to be able to "Undo Create Parent Item".

Zotero 7.1-beta.35+03b33d995 (64-bit)
Windows 10

adamsmith

what's the use case here? Retrieve metadata can go weirdly wrong (hence the undo), but I don't see how this can be the case for create parent item?

mjthoraval

The specific case where I wanted to used that option is that after creating the parent item using the DOI, I realised that I had lost some important information that was written on the title of the file. The automatic renaming of the title and the filename had overwritten that information. That behaviour is fine in general, but in that specific case, I just needed to undo, so that I could recover that lost information. It is exactly the same process as Retrieve Metadata, so I just expected that option to be there.

But I see many other use cases:
- Metadata used to create the parent item applied on the wrong file. Or any other manual mistake.
- Using the arXiv ID, to realise that Zotero imports the metadata of the published article mixed with metadata from arXiv, instead of the arXiv metadata that I was expecting.
- Getting incomplete metadata from DOI for a book, so I want to switch to ISBN
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