Problem dragging selected items into collections or on tags

mreddington
I would like to put several hundred items into a collection and also to assign tags. After selecting all of them and dragging onto either the collection name or the tag name there is no response. It works if I try it with only a few records so is probably a problem with the number of items I am dragging.

As well as the drag method it would be good to have an item on right-clicking the collection name or tag name that allows the selected items to be added.

Any help would be appreciated.
  • scot
    I notice this problem, too, even on a relatively brisk new machine with lots of RAM. (Under Win XP SP2).
  • mreddington
    I'm also using WinXP SP2 with 2 GB RAM.
  • dstillman
    It may just be a delay while Zotero generates a bibliography for all those items. There should probably be a limit to the number of items being dragged that triggers bibliography creation—maybe 25 or so.
  • scot
    I expect that's what it is. And a limit seems a good idea. If you're making a huge bibliography, it's not too much work to just do an export.
  • dstillman
    Ticket created. Thanks.
    If you're making a huge bibliography, it's not too much work to just do an export.
    The Quick Copy keyboard shortcut will also still work regardless of the number of items.

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