Upgrade StorageCollection Categories and Sorting (as viewed by public)
Hello,
I would like to be able to choose the labels that display when the public views my library collection page (title, creator, and year) and also have them sorted in reverse chronological order. I can get these changes to stick in my account, but when I or someone else views the collection it reverts back to default sorting and categories.
Is there a way to change this?
Thank you!
I would like to be able to choose the labels that display when the public views my library collection page (title, creator, and year) and also have them sorted in reverse chronological order. I can get these changes to stick in my account, but when I or someone else views the collection it reverts back to default sorting and categories.
Is there a way to change this?
Thank you!
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Thanks!
"Year" is part of the default display, no?
Publication isn't, but as a default that makes sense, because many items - book, reports - don't have a publication name so depending on the library there are a lot of empty fields. I realize that's less of an issue in physics, but that's why the display is customizable for viewers.
Also, if the way the library is displayed to the public is very important to you, there is always the option of creating your own display on you website via the server API http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/server_api
Title, Creator and Date Modified seem to be the defaults. The API server option is something we can look into but as we're doing this for a faculty member in another department (we're in the Library) we don't have access to their website.
I am wondering, though, how many items don't have publication names. They may have different kinds of publication names, most of which are covered in the zotero form and the differences between journal article, book, etc. Some sort of source is really important, though.
I realize that there are user preferences and that kind of flexibility is great, but if I were a user I'd want to have more of the citation available as a default. Or even let the owner set the default (because the public display is one of the great things about Zotero) but still allow the user to change the preferences as well.
The current defaults are the same as the defaults for the middle panel of the Zotero client (plus date modified the latter used to be the only permitted sort order, so maybe it's a relic from that time). Since there is more space in the online interface, adding one or two makes sense to me - year would be an obvious choice. Fcheslak - thoughts on that?
Who gets to set the default is tricky: The advantage of the status quo is, that, as a user, if I'm browsing several libraries I can set which fields I want to see once and for all and be done with it.
To not have the journal title display is doing a real disservice to users. The journals that people publish in matter very much. The faculty member that we are doing this for would like the journal name and the publication date.
The date modified is not an important piece of information in this particular iteration.
Thanks for thinking about this.
Date modified was included so that the default library view can act as an activity feed. The website library is one of the first stops many people make when verifying that their library is syncing, so easily sorting the most recent changes is fairly important.
As far as preference of users vs. owners of libraries, I tend to want zotero.org to let the person browsing decide what is important to them. If people want to more strictly control the display of information that is exactly what the API is for. We would never be able to give people all the options they would inevitably want.