customize order of entrys (elements of an item) in right pane (info)

olaf · March 27, 2014

I would like to know, if there is a possibility to customize the appearance of the right pane (info) in zotero.

For instance I was asked by a user if it is possible to show the entry for "date" always at the top of the list of entrys. I suspect it is an difficult issue because it involves the different lists of elements of different item types but hope that maybe there is a about.config entry for this or a matching list somewhere in the zotero folder?

adamsmith · March 28, 2014

not reasonably possible, no. The field order comes from the order of fields in the database. After a quick look at the code
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/master/chrome/content/zotero/bindings/itembox.xml
it looks like the code makes a provision for allowing a customized field order (see l. 310), but that's currently not implemented in any way.

olaf · March 28, 2014

Thanks for having a look at it. So this seems to be a case for manipulating the zotero core or a new thread in the "feature request" section of the forum

dstillman · March 28, 2014

There's no need to start a new thread. Devs read every thread, regardless of category.