Is it a bug that import annotations in File Menu is disabled for PDF files in group libraries?

zhaoyx · April 3, 2022

I found the function of import annotations could not work for PDF files in group libraries, is it a bug? If not, whether this function would be available for group files in the future?

ahmontgo · October 2, 2022

I, too, found this (after importing a 10K-size library from BibDesk into a group library). Can someone comment? It looks like I may need to move all of my citations back into My Library and then back, which would be... messy.

dstillman · October 3, 2022

Import Annotations should work in group libraries as long as you have file-editing access to the group.

If it's not working for you, post to the URL while viewing the parent item in the web library (or email it to support@zotero.org with a link to this thread).

ahmontgo · October 3, 2022

Here's an example:
https://www.zotero.org/groups/2374648/ahm.reed.edu/search/Jervis system effects/titleCreatorYear/items/KN8W62MR/item-list

It does happen for every PDF in that library that I've tried, though.

dstillman · October 4, 2022

Sorry, my mistake — we never enabled this in group libraries. We'll look into doing that for the next version. I'll post here once it's addressed in the beta.

ahmontgo · December 2, 2022

It now appears to have disappeared from items in "My Library" as well. Example:
https://www.zotero.org/ahmontgo/search/katz/titleCreatorYear/items/NS9Q64N9/item-list
This is true on macOS both for 6.0.18 and the current Zotero-6.0.19-beta.6+3d8bbb3e5

dstillman · December 2, 2022

What do you mean by "disappeared"? It always appears in the File menu of the PDF reader, whether or not it's enabled. (And we enabled it in group libraries in Zotero 6.0.16 in October.)

ahmontgo · December 2, 2022

At some point (I recall) you could access it from the File menu of the browser (and thus import annotations from multiple files at the same time). It does appear when you have a tabbed PDF reader, but not when you have a separate PDF reader window open.

dstillman · December 2, 2022

No, it's never been present in the library view.

We'll add it to the separate reader window.

ahmontgo · December 2, 2022

Ah, OK. My imagination, then. Adding it to the separate reader window would be great.