Drop and Drag Functionality

ResearchMD · May 21, 2009

Since sync preview, I have not been able to drag and drop my citations into the author and date format I was once able to do with the "shift key". Has something happen to this function. All I see now is a link after the drop is complete. Has the keys changed. I have tried changing the export citation selections but have not been able to get it to do anything differently.

Please help!

adamsmith · May 21, 2009

still works for me.
What operating system are you on?
Also - have you made sure your default export style (gear menu - preferences - export) is an author date style?

ResearchMD · May 21, 2009

Sorry about this. It works. I was capturing something on pubmed and I guess it must have captured the link without the data of the author. Subsequently, I have went to the site of the actual article and clicked on the icon in the URL field instead of using the camera and this worked better.

I am using Windows XP with zotero 2.0b4 with Firefox 3.0.10 (just updated)

adamsmith · May 22, 2009

good to hear.

as a note - if you click on something in the zotero bar (the camera isn't there anymore,but e.g. "Create Item from this page" - you never capture the author - the page is saved as a webpage with the title that's displayed on top of your Firefox.
So whenever possible (i.e. whenever it's there) use the item in the URL bar.