how to edit titel, creator, year ...

kurwi
I'm probably stupid, but ... I've managed to add a pdf to the middle window. It's title shows as the document's name. But I can't edit a thing. Not creator, titel, name of journal ... How do I do that?
  • bwiernik
    Right click on it and select "Retrieve metadata for PDF". Zotero will try to find the information for the document automatically. If that doesn't work, you can right click and choose "Create parent item" instead to enter the information manually.
  • kurwi
    Thank you. Both hints seem to work fine for my pdf's. But not for documents called "DownloadCitations" I get when I search Taylor & Francis' journals. They *do* contain (RIF-)information, but still - when dropped onto the main window) Zotero says "document contains no source information". When I choose to import them (via the cogwheel), they are accepted. Is that as it should be, or am I doing something wrong here?
  • adamsmith
    that's as it should be, but why are you not using the Zotero icon to import from Taylor and Franics? That'd be much easier and even attach the PDF where you have access:
    https://www.zotero.org/support/getting_stuff_into_your_library#web_translators
  • kurwi
    That's easy to explain: More often than not I get the "an error occurred"-response. (Zotero 4.0.28.8, Zotero Connector 4.0.28.) Since it works *sometimes* it's hard to find out why this occurs. In order to be able to use Zotero anyway I was looking for a workaround.
  • adamsmith
    we'd be very interested in an error report and the URL exactly as you see it posted right after that error occurs.
  • kurwi
    It seems, Zotero does not accept tracker blocking. Or maybe AdBlocker.
  • adamsmith
    adblocker is fine, but tracker blocking would very likely break things, yes. Cookies are used for session authentication.
  • kurwi
    The URL is http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00405848709543273

    But how do I get the error report? It's just that small pop-up window referring to "known translator issues" ...
  • adamsmith
    https://www.zotero.org/support/reporting_problems
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