Not able to click on Generate Report

jackiez
I am trying to Generate a Report from my collections. I right click on the collection but the "generate report" option is not highlighted so I can not click on it. I am still using 1.0.10 and don't want to mess with 2.0 yet. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

I read in a discussion that there was a problem when someone had dates like these in a file title "2002-2003". I do have a lot of that, but I can't ever click on generate report even when I don't click on a title with that date format.
Please help...
  • adamsmith
    no, you will just have to select all items in the collection - you can't select collections for reports, that's all. If you want reports of several collections, use the advanced search feature.
  • jackiez
    edited December 9, 2009
    Thanks, but I am still a bit lost. I can't figure out how to select all the items. (Select all isn't working). Basically I have collections of primary source documents that contain files/subcollections within files/subcollections. For example, Collection "MNE documents" will have subcollections of groups of documents. They in turn might have a subcollection.

    I guess what I am really trying to do is get a list/report, outlined, of the subcollections in this collection. I entered them in the way I did so that I could see where all these docs were filed and correctly cite them. Any way of printing or generating a report or list of what is in a certain collection?
    Thanks again - I am a bit technologically challenged.
    Jackie
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    You can generate a report from a collection—just not an empty one (and report generation also doesn't respect the recursiveCollections hidden pref).

    Select All should certainly work, though.

    There's not really any way currently of generating a report for multiple collection levels that shows the hierarchy.
  • jackiez
    Thanks. You answered my questions and saved me a lot of time.

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