Upgrade StorageZotero 8/9, BBT, and citation keys
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I've lost track of what's going on with Zotero and its add-ons because of this version churn. Add-ons stop working and are abandoned. Others are impossible to figure out how they work now.
Take BBT, for example. I used to be able to pin a citation key, and it would appear in the "Additional" field. Then Zotero 8 arrived, claiming it now controls citation keys itself, and all my keys disappeared from the add-on.
Now I've updated to version 9, and the ability to pin citation keys has reappeared. The "Additional" field has returned, but it's empty everywhere.
Which behavior is a bug, and which isn't? I don't understand anything. I hope the developers themselves understand what they're doing.
I've lost track of what's going on with Zotero and its add-ons because of this version churn. Add-ons stop working and are abandoned. Others are impossible to figure out how they work now.
Take BBT, for example. I used to be able to pin a citation key, and it would appear in the "Additional" field. Then Zotero 8 arrived, claiming it now controls citation keys itself, and all my keys disappeared from the add-on.
Now I've updated to version 9, and the ability to pin citation keys has reappeared. The "Additional" field has returned, but it's empty everywhere.
Which behavior is a bug, and which isn't? I don't understand anything. I hope the developers themselves understand what they're doing.
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dstillman Zotero Teamedited today at 3:17pmAny special functionality about citation keys is entirely BBT, and none of this has anything to do with Zotero 8 or 9 or "version churn". The only change we made — in 7.0.31 — was to introduce an official Citation Key field and add auto-migration of known fields from Extra into the official fields. Everything else is BBT, so you'd have to ask the BBT developer.