Bug Report - User Interface - File/New Item/Web Page

tog

Dear Zotero Team,

this is a Bug-Fix-Request with low priority:

If you want to create a new item of type Web Page you will not find that item type in menu File/New Item/Web Page. Instead you have to first create a new item of one of the listed types and then change the item type in the editor panel on the right to "Web Page".

Please try to reproduce. Over here we are using Zotero 4.0.29.10.

We are looking forward to seeing this fixed.

Thank you for your great work and all the time that Zotero saves us while working.

Yours sincerely

Thomas

Rintze

This was done intentionally, because the Zotero developer(s) argue that in the vast majority of cases, people would be better off creating web page items directly from the page they're visiting in the browser, instead of creating a new webpage item by hand and entering all item metadata manually.

See also https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/197682/#Comment_197682

Rintze

And, also in that thread, Zotero developer Dan Stillman agrees that it would be better to allow webpage items to be created via the "New Item" menu, if there was a (cancellable) warning that there are often better ways to create an item for webpages that still exist. That just hasn't been implemented yet. (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/172263/#Comment_172263 and below)

tog

Dear Rintze

Thanks a lot for the pointers with that I will be able to communicate this to our users over here.

Please keep up the great work.

Thomas