Tags show in desktop app but not in browser

r-paulu
Hi all,

I have been working on a group library and have developed an elaborate (and what some might say excessive) tagging system. I have at least 100 tags, and they all start with a color emoticon to keep them in organized sections (see attachment).

To prevent having papers with a thousand different colored emoticons covering the title, I have been tagging the file within the dropdown (see attachment). This setup works perfectly well in the desktop version of Zotero. However, when viewing in the browser, none of the tags appear. Does anyone have a solution to this? Is there a way to add color to more than 9 tags? Is there a way to prevent emoticons from appearing next to the title?

Any thoughts are welcome, thanks!

Ryan

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  • dstillman
    You're tagging the child PDF, and child attachments aren't shown in the items list in the web library. Unless you have a strong reason to be tagging the PDF, you should tag the parent item — tags describe the abstract item, not a specific file.

    (If you've tagged many attachments this way, someone could probably write you a script to transfer the tags to the parent items instead.)
  • mjthoraval
    edited 4 days ago
    @r-paulu:
    Is there a way to prevent emoticons from appearing next to the title?
    Less fancy than coloured emojis, but you could use symbols to retain the structure with tags on the parent item, without showing them next to the title: ◯, ▇, ■, ⫷, ►, ╳, ◆, ○, ⇒, ...
    For example: https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_geometric.asp

    I don't know which ones are considered as emojis to be displayed on the title.
  • r-paulu
    Hi dstillman,

    Thanks for the comment. You are right, this is the source of the problem. However, when I tag the parent item, the title is practically unreadable as it is covered in tags.

    https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u17509892/zpe8p3v6fhmt7tqofo34.png

    Removing the emoticons would change the organization system in the Tag Selector.
  • dstillman
    You can make the Title column wider.
  • r-paulu
    @dstillman,

    Thank you for your input. The idea is that this group library would be open for anyone, regardless of their experience with Zotero. If I were new to this group library and I saw this...

    https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u17509892/hbybo7cxqytlbaszkxht.png

    I would be overwhelmed by all the colors. Is there any way to prevent these emoticons from appearing next to the title? If not, is there a way I can formally request this feature?

    Alternatively, I am in another group library that has more than 9 colored tags; this would solve all my life's problems, although I can understand why some developers are against it. Are there any clever workarounds I can use to add more colored tags so I don't have to deal with emojis?

    Any thoughts are welcome.

    Ryan
  • dstillman
    You're saying you want to use colored tags instead of emoji because the colors are displayed more compactly, and if you could assign the same color to multiple tags it would only be displayed once?
  • dstillman
    (And to be clear, that's obviously not how emoji tags are generally used. Usually people just have one or a few pictorial emoji, not dozens of colored circles.)
  • r-paulu
    Yes, you understand. More broadly, if there is any way to organize or color-code the tags, like I have done above, without affecting the representation of the papers, that would be wonderful.
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