Quick copy export translator HTML code

vikingomma

Hi, I've made a small translator wich allows me to quick copy notes and outputs a link to the zotero item, ie:

<a href='zotero://select/items/0_J7EC3GNA'><i>Estructura y Agencia: Malinowski</i></a>

Where the text is extracted from the first line of the note. And if I drag a different type of Item i get a formated link with the item.title property.

Now, when I use it on the note editor, I get HTML code pasted, is there any way I can use this without having to open the HTML source editor?

aurimas

Haven't tested this, but do you have "Copy as HTML" selected under Preferences -> Export?

vikingomma

I tryed that but the checkbox shows up greyed out. I think because what I´ve made is an export translator. Is there any way to change this behaviour?

aurimas

Ah, right. I'm afraid currently there's no way you can export what you want as HTML. We'll see if this can change in the future.

vikingomma

Thanks for your help!

zuphilip

Maybe, Zutilo is interesting for you, where it is possible to "Copy select item links". I don't know if you can adapt it to your use case.

vikingomma

I took a look at it some time ago but I had some issues. I had problems when trying to copy an independent note (I use them a lot), and when I copied "normal" items what I got was the zotero:// URL wich I could paste on the browser or use within zotero notes. But what I want to achieve is that when I copy the item/link and paste it I have not just the URL but a properly formated hyperlink (name/description+url) for pasting. The idea is that when I write a note and want to reference another note from within the text I could do that easily. Right now I can do that with this translator but I have to copy/paste it (ore drag&drop it) in the HTML source editor window. Its no big deal, but I wanted to see if I could make it even simpler. My aim is to also use Zotero as a limited wiki or Zettelkasten so I don´t need to use another piece of software. Anyway I will take a look at it again, I rekon I didn´t spend much time with it.

vikingomma

I've managed to solve the copying as HTML using autohotkey as indicated in:

http://www.simonkittle.com/2012/07/hyperlink-to-zotero-standalone-item/

Now when I paste in word or any other software it is pasted as HTML and all links work properly. The problem is when I paste this in Zotero´s editor, all zotero protocol urls are getting erased:

<!-- Begin Cita ZK --><a href="zotero://report/items/0_X7I4G5GT/html/report.html" title="A new history of anthropology ">(Kuklick 2008)</a> <a href='zotero://select/items/0_X7I4G5GT'>(Zotero)</a> <a href='http://zotero.org/users/933006/items/X7I4G5GT'>;(Website)</a> <a href='zotero://open-pdf/0_8JXBMSBB/1'>(pp 1)</a><!-- End Cita ZK -->

Gets pasted as:

<p><a title="A new history of anthropology
">(Kuklick 2008)</a> <a>(Zotero)</a> <a href="http://zotero.org/users/933006/items/X7I4G5GT">(Website)</a> <a>(pp 1)</a></p>

Any suggestions?

vikingomma

One clarification, links in word that have zotero://select do work ok when zotero is running but zotero://report and zotero://open-pdf are not. Anyway this is a different issue, my main problem is for this to work inside Zotero´s editor.

dstillman

The problem of pasting zotero:// links into notes should be fixed in the latest 4.0 Beta. The fix will be included in 4.0.27.

vikingomma

Excellent news!! Thanks!!