colored tag option doesn't appear

systrauss

I keep having problems with creating colored tags. The tags are there, but I cannot assign a color. I have only used 5 colors.

adamsmith

Where exactly does this fail? What options do you get when you right-click on a tag in the tag selector?

bwiernik

Are you using the Zotero.org web library or the Zotero desktop app? You can only assign new tag colors in the desktop app.

c-bg

I have the same problem, I cannot assign a color.
When I right-click on a tag in the desktop app, nothing happens. If I see correctly from the docs [1], a menu with coloring options (among others) should appear.
Perhaps I'm missing something? :)

Zotero desktop app version: 5.0.94
OS: macOS Catalina

[1] https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#colored_tags

c-bg

I now found the source of the confusion.
The tags _cannot_ be right-clicked in info column on the right, where one can also easily add tags. Assigning colors only works for me if I right-click tags in the small window in the left lower corner (I suspect this is the tag selector, contrary to the other tag editing place, so I got them mixed up).

Is it intentional that right-clicking doesn't work in the column on the right?

dstillman

Yes, it's intentional. The tags in the right-hand pane are tags on the item, so assigning a global color to them there doesn't really make sense. You assign colors in the tag selector, which is the global view of the tags. Same with deleting globally, which also isn't an option from the item pane.