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cobbweb · October 14, 2014

On opening Zotero standalone one can add some columns to view eg Title, Creator, Item Type etc but it would be very helpful if one could see which Collection they are included in - the only way I can see to do that would be create a tag with the collection but this is very laborious and not worth it. I really don't understand why this is missing.

dstillman · October 14, 2014

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/collections_containing_an_item

It's not in a column because item<->collection is a one-to-many relationship, so displaying a list of unbounded length with no inherent order in a single column is illogical.

cobbweb · October 14, 2014

Yeah, well it doesn't alter its usefulness.

fbennett · October 14, 2014

Just in case it's escaped notice, the collections for a particular item can be revealed via the keyboard:

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/collections_containing_an_item

adamsmith · October 14, 2014

(FWIW, I still think--and I thought Dan had come around to that view--we should have collections visible and editable in the right-hand panel*. That might not have exactly the desired effect for cobbweb, but might be helpful nonetheless)

*not least because the way they currently work they're almost completely unusable for people with special accessibility requirements.

cobbweb · October 21, 2014

Yes, that would be very good. I didn't know about using the keyboard to see where the collections are but it would be useful to have a right-hand panel view as adamsmith suggests.