Problems with Multiple Administrators Editing
I've spent the last couple of days experimenting with multiples administrators of my Zotero Group (ZG), and there are many problems. What I'd like to be able to do is to give multiple people the power to add and edit entries (mostly "tags," but also basic stuff under "info"). When I granted administrator status to another person and he made changes (which he was able to do), everything got all janky, quickly.
An example: he added the tag "liturgy" to an entry which already had the tags: "Orthodox," "early church," and "Syriac." Once he synced, his newly synced version of the Group Library (GL) had only "liturgy" and "early church" as tags. And when I synced some time later, my GL had only the tags: "early church" and "Syriac." AND, both of us lost tags entirely on other books in our GL, ones which neither of us had edited any time recently: some of these books had all their tags lost, some had half, some were intact. This situation was repeated over and over (of course I had my library backed up, so I did not lose anything), and the results were always seemingly random.
Zotero is working great for our project for read-only users, with me as the single administrator. I’d like to be able to get to the point where others can administrate/edit as well. Any advice?
An example: he added the tag "liturgy" to an entry which already had the tags: "Orthodox," "early church," and "Syriac." Once he synced, his newly synced version of the Group Library (GL) had only "liturgy" and "early church" as tags. And when I synced some time later, my GL had only the tags: "early church" and "Syriac." AND, both of us lost tags entirely on other books in our GL, ones which neither of us had edited any time recently: some of these books had all their tags lost, some had half, some were intact. This situation was repeated over and over (of course I had my library backed up, so I did not lose anything), and the results were always seemingly random.
Zotero is working great for our project for read-only users, with me as the single administrator. I’d like to be able to get to the point where others can administrate/edit as well. Any advice?
If the problem is not related to any of those issues, could you try replicating it and reporting on the individual steps so that we can try to replicate the issue?
I will try to replicate and record steps & get back to you -- thanks.
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Thanks again.