Select text, create item and note using translator
Hi all,
Maybe I'm missing something, but if I select text on a page that has a usable translator (e.g. http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001543), right click, and select "Zotero > Create Zotero item and note from selection", I would expect Zotero to use the translator, not create a new generic "web page" item.
Thanks. I searched the forums for information about this, but I couldn't find anything.
best, Erik
Maybe I'm missing something, but if I select text on a page that has a usable translator (e.g. http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001543), right click, and select "Zotero > Create Zotero item and note from selection", I would expect Zotero to use the translator, not create a new generic "web page" item.
Thanks. I searched the forums for information about this, but I couldn't find anything.
best, Erik
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/issues/493
(I can't assign this to you, but if you post in the thread I might be able to.)
One unresolved question is what should happen if there are multiple results on the page. It wouldn't make sense if the user selected multiple items, but I don't know that we particularly want into get in customizing the select items dialog to allow only a single selection. That'd be one option, though.
if (detectWeb(doc, url) && detectWeb(doc, url)!="multiple")
and indeed that should be done - if someone really wants to create a note from something on a search results (or similar) page, the page should be saved as a webpage item.
It would be really great if one could "Create Zotero Item and Note from Selection" by using the translation, i.e. it would save all the available metadata.
I use this option very often when collecting material, especially from the websites. For example, excerpts from the NYT or The Economist articles.
Now, after the years of usage I thought it would be great to sort the relevant Notes according to the years they were published (and not when the Note was created), but found that all the data was just saved as a webpage and only date was the date I created the note...
I want to be able to select text and create note from my browser (Mozilla)and I am not able to see this option for 'select text create item and note' when I right click on the selected text. Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks.
This feature is not implemented yet.
best, Erik
Yes I am selecting and right clicking while on the text.I am using Zotero standalone 4.0.25.2 I only have one option with selected or not selected text.
Thanks.
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Thanks.