[standalone] bibtex export not working for recursive collections

Edisz · May 15, 2013

I have enabled recursive collections. When I want to export the collection (with the entries in subcollections).

Debug ID = D530205001

However, when I manually mark all entries in the collection, the export works...

Any ideas?

dstillman · May 15, 2013

recursiveCollections is (currently, at least) a display-only setting that has no effect on something like export—as far as Zotero is concerned, the items from the subcollections aren't in the top collection.

Edisz · May 15, 2013

Thanks, Dan.

Maybe a feature for the future...

plunckett · July 11, 2013

Good to know this. Such a feature would be extremely practical, if you ask me. Manually adding bibliography entries to its parent folder is quite error-prone... If you e.g. by accident drag the contents of one sub-folder in another sub-folder in stead of in its parent folder, it's quite hard to filter them out again, and really a head ache it you have a lot of entries in those folders. (Reminds me that regluar backups of your Zotero-folder is a very, very good idea)

By the way: I have an empty parent directory, which yields an empty file for my BibTex-export, but after I enabled the recursive feature, it dit export its first subfolder, not the rest.