Make it possible to record the change of case in tags

chtfn

Hi there!

I juste wanted to add a small enhancement request here:
I often add tags to publications and forget to upper-case first letters they way I want (or the automatic tagging does not result in what I want). When I go and edit the tag, it does not recort it if the change is just a change of case.

I guess this could help a lot of people who like there tags to be tidy and readable?

Does that make sense?

Cheers

dstillman

Right-click on the tag in the tag selector in the bottom left and click Rename. You have to change the case for all items with that tag.

chtfn

Thanks for your reply, Dan.
So, what the tagger of each item does is that it matches automatically a tag that was used before, changing the case?
Or does it just go back to the previous case automatically?

dstillman

You can think of tags as individual entities, and there's only one tag for a given series of characters — regardless of case — per library. Items are linked to tags. So if a tag already exists with a given casing and you try to add it to an item, Zotero will use the existing casing, since it's actually just adding a link to the existing tag. To change the case of the existing tag entity, you have to rename it directly via the tag selector.

chtfn

Aaah, see, I was not aware of that as different case versions of the tag are listed as two tags in the tag list. I just noticed that selecting one is exactly the same as selecting the other.

Good to know, thank you for your help!