Alphabetize Item Type

GypsyAgent
When I open the Item Type drop down menu, everything that's available is just tossed in the list, and man, when I'm tired and working on a paper, that just frazzles my already frazzled mind.

Would it possible to alphabetize this drop down list??
  • aurimas
    Are you using Zotero in a non-English language? The list is alphebetized in the English UI.
  • GypsyAgent
    Hi,

    I am using English, yes indeed. But in the Firefox plugin, and when I log in online, it is not alphabetized. However, and this is weird, when you asked that question and I checked things out, oddly the list is alphabetized in Word - which I'm assuming is populating from the Firefox plugin??
  • adamsmith
    I'm a little confused now. Where exactly are you looking? (i.e. what do you click to get to that list)
  • GypsyAgent
    edited May 25, 2015
    Going from the website, I log in,
    I go to My Library,
    I click the green and white (+) (i.e. Create Item),
    First thing that populates is a drop down menu titled: Item Type,
    I click on the drop down menu to select the type of item I'm adding, and right here, nothing is alphabetized.

    Now, this is much shorter of a process using the Firefox plugin.
    I click the green and white (+) (i.e. Create Item),
    I get a drop down menu to select the type of item I'm adding, and right here, nothing is alphabetized.
  • GypsyAgent
    Oh yeah, and the Firefox plugin lists the last four or five used item types used - but that's not what I'm talking about.

    This is when I want to select a different item type from the last used ones....
  • adamsmith
    OK, I see this online, but I'm not seeing what you're seeing on Firefox:

    After clicking on the green plus sign, I get the 5 most recent item types, followed by Link to File and Store Copy of File.
    Below that is the category "More" -- when moving the mouse over that, I see the full list of all available item types in alphabetical order.

    At which point does your experience differ? If you know how, a screenshot and/or brief screenvid would help (upload to any free hosting site, link to it from here), otherwise just describe in more detail.
  • GypsyAgent
    edited May 25, 2015
    Strangely in my Firefox, when I click that 'Below that is the category "More" -- when moving the mouse over that' mine is not alphabetized. Like, I have Book, Brief, following Website, Report.

    I'll uninstall and reinstall it later today and see if that changes. I can't do that right this moment, so it will be later on.

    And get you a screenshot if it persists. Cool?
  • adamsmith
    don't worry about re-installing--the chance that'd help pretty much zero.
    Screenshot would be great, together with an error report ID:
    https://www.zotero.org/support/reporting_problems
  • aurimas
    Also, where exactly is this:
    oddly the list is alphabetized in Word
    I'm not aware of any place in the Zotero Word integration to select item types.

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