Upgrade StorageReordering creators
Apologies if this is asked and answered, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
I'm new to Zotero, using 2.0b7.4, and I'm liking it so far. There are a few issues I'm having with the creator fields, though. The main one is: Is it possible to reorder creator fields, and if so, how?
For example, if I enter a co-authored article by, say, Pat Smith and Chris Jones, but then I realize that I got the name order backward, it appears that I have to re-enter them as Chris Jones and then Pat Smith.
Worse is if I enter a book chapter by Pat Smith in a book edited by Robin Howard, but then I realize that I left out Pat Smith's co-author Chris Jones. The only way to deal with this I can find is to delete the editor, enter Chris Jones in as an author, and then re-enter the editor.
(I realize that the Writer plugin would presumably still get it right if I simply entered Chris Jones after the editor--however, it'd make visually scanning the entry in Zotero less intuitive. Also, if Chris Jones was the primary author, that wouldn't work.)
So am I missing something obvious, or is this actually something I just have to live with for the moment?
I'm new to Zotero, using 2.0b7.4, and I'm liking it so far. There are a few issues I'm having with the creator fields, though. The main one is: Is it possible to reorder creator fields, and if so, how?
For example, if I enter a co-authored article by, say, Pat Smith and Chris Jones, but then I realize that I got the name order backward, it appears that I have to re-enter them as Chris Jones and then Pat Smith.
Worse is if I enter a book chapter by Pat Smith in a book edited by Robin Howard, but then I realize that I left out Pat Smith's co-author Chris Jones. The only way to deal with this I can find is to delete the editor, enter Chris Jones in as an author, and then re-enter the editor.
(I realize that the Writer plugin would presumably still get it right if I simply entered Chris Jones after the editor--however, it'd make visually scanning the entry in Zotero less intuitive. Also, if Chris Jones was the primary author, that wouldn't work.)
So am I missing something obvious, or is this actually something I just have to live with for the moment?
This discussion has been closed.
See these related discussions as well:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/849/priority-or-ordering-of-creator-types/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/514/change-order-of-authors/
With that said, the editor example should not provide the same problem. It does not matter which order the editor is in for citation, editors are dealt with separately in bibliographies.
But that ticket's been open 3 years, listed as minor importance, with a target of version 1.0.10 (if I read the entry right)--is this the sort of thing where there's a ticket, but it's never gonna actually happen?
(And, unfortunately, I have no background in programming at all, so I'll readily admit I'm complaining without being able to help solve what I'm complaining about.)
As I understand it, the priority at the moment is to batten down the sync and groupwise storage features in version 2.0, and to pursue enhancements to the user interface in a next-step version 2.1.