Changing a subgroup into a group

ReinerBanken

Is there any way to change a subgroup into a group?

Or do I have to create the group, copy all items from the subgroup into the group and delete the subgroup? As I do have several level of subgroups in the subgroup I would like to change into a group, this would be quite long to do.

bwiernik

I assume by “group” you mean “collection”.

You can click and drag the subcollection icon between rows in your collection tree until you see a blue line between collections. Then release and it will be a top-level collection.

mjthoraval

You can click and drag the subcollection icon between rows in your collection tree until you see a blue line between collections. Then release and it will be a top-level collection.

This does not work for me on Windows or Ubuntu.

You can convert a subcollection into a top-level collection by dragging it out of the collection and dropping it into empty space in the left Zotero pane.

https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#creating_collections
This also does not work for me.

You can drag and drop the subcollection to the target collection, or to the library to make it a top-level collection.
You can also use the right-click menu on the subcollection to move or copy it to another collection or library.

adamsmith

Yeah, right-click --> Move to seems like the most convenient option here (drag&drop also doesn't work for me on the Windows beta)

dstillman

I think we removed that to avoid accidental moves. You can still drag to the library root, which is more explicit.