Recursive display of all items of a collection and its sub-collections
It would be nice to have an option to display all items of an collection and its sub-collections in the item-list. That would be especially useful if I use the collections as a categorization for items.
Example: I've the collection HCI containing the collections CSCW, GUI, and so on. All the items are located in sub-collections of HCI (or even in sub-collections of sub-collections).
If I click on the HCI collection right know I get nothing in the item-list. What I would like to have, is to list all items that are somewhere in the sub-collection of HCI.
Example: I've the collection HCI containing the collections CSCW, GUI, and so on. All the items are located in sub-collections of HCI (or even in sub-collections of sub-collections).
If I click on the HCI collection right know I get nothing in the item-list. What I would like to have, is to list all items that are somewhere in the sub-collection of HCI.
Thanks,
Dan
I realized that this means literally type in "about:config" in the address bar instead of a url. (For other people totally unfamiliar with this, doing this takes you to an alarming "warning" page that tells you to be careful or you'll void your firefox warranty.)
Scroll down to "extensions.zotero.recursiveCollections" and double click on where it says "false" on the right. The change will be immediately noticeable in zotero. No restart required.
I would definitely like for this to be a feature in the preferences pane. A few colleagues of mine have complained about this as a huge limitation of subcollections. For some reason, in this context, it seemed much more intuitive that it should default to "true" (or not even be an option at all). I don't know how people think of zotero folders though in relation to folders on their desktop (where a recursive option is not the norm).
Anyhow, thanks for providing the secret feature to enable this.
Dan
I love Zotero, use it every day---keep up the good work!
It seems like a long shot, but I thought I'd ask, and maybe it will end up as a feature request. Thanks!
So: Please add a fast way switching this. Thanks!
This would actually cover almost all of the use cases (or at least my use cases) for the request for "selecting multiple folders", which I added my vote to in this thread, while presumably being considerably easier to implement.
This could be available as an Zotero toolbar "icon" (like the advanced search, Add Item by Identifier, etc).
Thanks in advance
(Edit: Also, both views do currently work with groups as well as the personal library -- the TODO comment about that in the code is stale)
As a user, the first place I looked for it was in the drop down menu of the gear, followed by the general tab of the gear.
Seth
Thanks
Thanks!
(the other hidden pref I'd really like to see exposed is the bib locale)