Sorting on the creator column still leaves out all items with an editor rather than author. Can this be sorted soon? Otherwise, impossible to create bibliographies. Thanks
I am on 5.0.83-beta.5+86a5c46b1 and this beta version still does not include editors when sorting on the creator column, that is they come at the end in a seemingly random order after the authors have been sorted alphabetically.
I have toggled sorting for the creator column several times, pressed home and end to check both ways, but the sorting is still not working as expected. The report ID is: 1324173311 The locale is set to English if that is relevant.
5.0.83 just auto-installed and now I'm having the problem haraldaa describes. Authors in order, then everything else whether it has an editor or not in seemingly random order. Here's my report ID: 724639552. Thanks.
Correction, NOT random order. I just figured out the pattern. It lists everything in date order from oldest to newest. It then lists in alphabetical order anything left (i.e. no date entered).
@buchberger: Can you take a screenshot that shows what you're describing and either upload it somewhere and provide a link or email it to support@zotero.org with a link to this thread?
If someone experiencing this wouldn't mind uploading their database to the DB Repair Tool and posting the Upload ID here, that would be very helpful. You can ignore the download links the tool provides, but the Upload ID would let us run some tests on the database to see what's happening.
(A smaller version of the database with just a few items would be fine. To do that, temporarily unlink your Zotero from syncing in the Sync pane of the preferences, close Zotero, move the Zotero data directory to a safe location, create a new empty "Zotero" folder in its place, and copy the original zotero.sqlite file there. Then you can start Zotero and delete items in that copy of the database until just a few items that demonstrate the problem remain, empty the trash, close Zotero, and upload that version to the repair tool. After you've done that, you can delete that directory, move your main Zotero data directory back into place, and re-enable syncing.)
Thanks, @haraldaa — that's exactly what we needed.
This was still failing for items with more than a single editor, which is why I couldn't reproduce this — I was only testing with a single editor. Fixed now in the latest Zotero beta, and the fix will be included in 5.0.84 soon.
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The locale is set to English if that is relevant.
(A smaller version of the database with just a few items would be fine. To do that, temporarily unlink your Zotero from syncing in the Sync pane of the preferences, close Zotero, move the Zotero data directory to a safe location, create a new empty "Zotero" folder in its place, and copy the original zotero.sqlite file there. Then you can start Zotero and delete items in that copy of the database until just a few items that demonstrate the problem remain, empty the trash, close Zotero, and upload that version to the repair tool. After you've done that, you can delete that directory, move your main Zotero data directory back into place, and re-enable syncing.)
This was still failing for items with more than a single editor, which is why I couldn't reproduce this — I was only testing with a single editor. Fixed now in the latest Zotero beta, and the fix will be included in 5.0.84 soon.
Thanks!