Multiple tags

AleksandrRybakov · July 30, 2023

Greetings, since iv just moved from Mendeley, where I could select multiple referenecs and add e.g. language tag "en" for all of them, in Zotero i could not find this feature, only 1 by 1. With 800+ references it takes too much time. Maybe im missing how to do same thing?

dstillman · July 30, 2023

You can select multiple items and drag them to a tag in the tag selector in the bottom left.

https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#adding_tags_to_items

AleksandrRybakov · July 30, 2023

This will not fill the field "Language" this way

dstillman · July 30, 2023

Ah, sorry, you're asking about fields, not tags. Batch editing is planned, but for now you'd have to run some code to do that.

https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/javascript_api#batch_editing

johnmy · July 30, 2023

https://github.com/redleafnew/zotero-javascripts/blob/main/01set-item-language-to-en-if-this-field-is-empty.js
This script change the language to en when the language field is empty after mutiple items were selected and run the script.