Mass actions
There are a couple of corners of Zotero where mass actions (e.g. 'delete all selected') aren't possible. I'm converting a large library of cancer screening references from Endnote to Zotero, so I'm encountering the need for 'merge all' in Duplicate Items and the ability to select and delete multiple tags in the tag manager. There might be other areas I haven't found yet where mass actions might be useful.
Could you tell us exactly how Zotero imported tags incorrectly? I'm interested in fixing that part.
I need to clarify I'm not sure at what point the tags have imported incorrectly. Here's an example that appears as a single tag in Zotero:
"80 and over Breast Neoplasms/mortality/*prevention & control Cost-Benefit Analysis Female Health Services for the Aged/economics/*utilization Humans Longitudinal Studies Mammography/economics/*utilization Middle Aged Multivariate Analysis Patient Acceptance of Health Care/*statistics & numerical data Risk United States/epidemiology Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/mortality/*prevention & control Vaginal Smears/economics/*utilization"
That looks to me like automatic tags from a full text database. I got my citations into Zotero by exporting them as Bibtex from an Endnote database created by someone else (large NFP setting), so I don't know at what point they were joined into one massive supertag. There's probably 100-150 supertags like it, and it's easier for me to trash all my tags in SQLite than delete or separate them all one by one by hand.
I went back to the Bibtex file and this is how they appear:
keywords = {Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Early Detection of Cancer/*utilization
Female
*Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Middle Aged
Papillomavirus Vaccines/*administration & dosage/immunology
Patient Acceptance of Health Care/*statistics & numerical data
United States
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/*prevention & control
Vaginal Smears/*utilization
Young Adult},
I know the Zotero documentation recommends importing via RIS not Bibtex, but it choked on RIS, I'm guessing due to illegal characters or over-length in the import string.
Are you getting an error or is Zotero freezing? if you are getting an error could you submit a report and post a report ID here? Also, if possible, could you provide us with the RIS file that is causing problems? you can upload it to dropbox/Google drive, paste it on pastey.com or gist.github.com, or email it to support@zotero.org (hopefully Dan doesn't mind) or to me directly aurimas.dev@gmail.com
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/25913/zotero-chokes-on-import-from-endnote/
I'll send the RIS to your e-mail. Cheers, D.