Feature Request: Limit Libraries that show in Word plugin
Hi, after several hours of wasted time fixing duplicate references this week on a grant proposal and the same thing a bit over a month ago on another grant proposal, I want to ask if Zotero could please, please, please add a setting in the Word plugin whereby you can choose to limit which libraries are displayed when you are creating citations.
After using Zotero for several group writing projects, I have several libraries and they have quite a few references in common. It is very difficult to get everyone to be extremely careful to only select the citation from one specific library. Once a reference gets cited from one library in one place and another library in another place in the doc, it becomes extremely likely that we will keep on doing that. This makes it extremely tedious to eradicate the offending reference from the wrong library in all the places it has been cited, esp. for very important refs that may get cited 10 or more different times throughout a proposal or manuscript.
My suggestion is that in Document Preferences, there be a list of all the libraries available, with a single checkbox to allow all of the libraries to be used (current behavior), plus if that box isn't checked, radio buttons to just choose one library out of all the ones available.
Thank you for considering it!
After using Zotero for several group writing projects, I have several libraries and they have quite a few references in common. It is very difficult to get everyone to be extremely careful to only select the citation from one specific library. Once a reference gets cited from one library in one place and another library in another place in the doc, it becomes extremely likely that we will keep on doing that. This makes it extremely tedious to eradicate the offending reference from the wrong library in all the places it has been cited, esp. for very important refs that may get cited 10 or more different times throughout a proposal or manuscript.
My suggestion is that in Document Preferences, there be a list of all the libraries available, with a single checkbox to allow all of the libraries to be used (current behavior), plus if that box isn't checked, radio buttons to just choose one library out of all the ones available.
Thank you for considering it!
In addition to avoiding inserting from the "wrong" library, it'd also massively help with speed for folks with small-ish groups but a lot of references overall.
If I could add, a mechanism to switch library would be super as well. Although this was discussed a few years back and remarked requiring a lot of dev time
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/63790