scrolling bar missing?
Hi!
I am not sure if it can be from my system or from Zotero, but I just found that if i open more fields in the central pannel no horizontal scrolling bar appears so i can easily see them. Shouldn't this happen?
Thanks for this great software! :)
I am not sure if it can be from my system or from Zotero, but I just found that if i open more fields in the central pannel no horizontal scrolling bar appears so i can easily see them. Shouldn't this happen?
Thanks for this great software! :)
I have just today installed Firefox 3 and Zotero 1.0.6. (previously running FF 2 x and Zotero 1.0.4)
Most things appear to work fine, but I have lost the vertical scroll bar on the tag selector window. ("Collections" still has its scroll bar) This is possibly because Zotero now shows all the automatic tags, (big heaps!) but extending the window to its full height and dragging the edge as far to the right as possible to maximize the size, still does not return the visibility of the scroll bar.
What to do?
I think this might be an issue with some of the auto tags lacking proper separators - there seem to be some groups of imported tags separated by semicolons which are not being read as separate fields. Long fields may be pushing the whole tag selector column so that it and the surrounding tags effectively disappear under the central column.
I am guessing if I could drag the whole widow to the right I would find the scroll bar again. It certainly reappears when there are only short tags in the window.
That's my best guess anyway.
Right now I am doing a labourious manual job of going through every item and checking the length of the tags appended to it, and breaking them up when I find a long one. So far only up to the "K's "
See what you make of the screenshot.
I just checked each of my 'collections" for tag selector scroll bar problems and they all work except two. Both of these were originally imported from EndNote. (I have retained my imports from EndNote in separate collections. ) Why one of the three imports works and the other two don't would probably require me to recollect what I was doing in early Feb of this year which is when I installed Zotero and added them. Memory does not stretch that far.
However it could also be a function of slightly different labels in each of the imports. I have noticed in the past that when using the EndNote imports in Zotero some of the fields were a bit odd, probably because I added a couple of extra fields in EndNote and renamed some when I was using it But it must also have something to do with auto tags as this was not a problem in Zotero 1.0.4
Your turn to guess?
I have gone through both those collections that still caused problems. (That is, those imported from EndNote)
The scroll bar returned when I got the max number of characters in tag fields (including spaces) under about 110 characters, with the column edge dragged as far as I could to the right, however I can easily replicate the problem by dragging the tag selector column edge to the left, and, as I still have some reasonably long uncorrected fields, (presumably) as soon as it overlaps a tag enough, the scroll bar disappears again!
Finally here's something you CAN try at home! (though I suggest if you are doing it deliberately you start your long tag with the letter A, so it remains in view)
It would be nice if there were a proper fix for this as its taken me the best part of a day and a half exclusively working on it, to fix it.
"It would be nice to have a way to identify the really long tags so that I could shorten them."
I heartily second that!
Only after I got the scroll bar back could I go through the tags with any ease to shorten them. Before that I could not see past letter E. Perhaps a separate 'edit ' window as for Notes or similar that displayed each tag on one line would assist. One line to a tag would make picking up problem lengths easy.
I believe there is a sex difference between men (scrollers) and women (non-scrollers) so I tend not to think about the use of the scroll-wheel as an option.