Thanks Joscha for your answer.

I noticed a problem when there are two attachments with one which is not of the specified format (pdf, doc, rtf, ...). In that case, nothing happens. I think the pdf file, for instance, should be processed. It is if the other attachment is deleted first.

I will look how it would be possible to "merge" Zoterename functions into Zotfile, i.e. the ability to auto-execute Zotefile's renaming function whenever a file is attached during the creation of a reference.

Thierry

@Joscha: Thanks for updating your plugin.

Do others also see the double reference for the functions in the drop-down menu?

Yes. Have double entries in the menu for both of zotfile's two menu points.
kithairon

Just as an update: There will be a new version but currently there are still some bugs... I probably wont be able to solve them before Monday in a week...

ps: Thanks Thierry. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to add zotfile to the attachment drop-down menu because I think it doesn't has an id so that I can't add anything to it...

I've just finished working out a workflow for doing conversions -- it's a little clunky, but it works. See https://gist.github.com/734012

I haven't put in the time to polish off the feature, but the idea is that I add a new menu entry to "Convert and attach". Zotfile calls an external executable that does something, then pulls in the output if that executable returned the expected exit code. The example Windows batch file on github make DjVu files out of JPEGs.

Issues so far:
-- My call to the external executable is blocking, so Firefox is frozen until the conversion completes. It should be easy to fix this, but I haven't really tried yet.
-- The item attachment logic I'm using isn't flexible about file types-- the file extension consumed and produced by the external script should at least be defined by preferences and not hard-coded.
-- I would like to add an option to disable renaming altogether; that'll happen later
-- The work farmed out to the batch script could easily be done from within Firefox-- we could call conversion utilities right from Firefox just as well
-- I hadn't written a Windows batch file for at around a decade and I plan to rewrite at least that part of it once I fix my wireless under Linux and move back to its more familiar confines.
-- Multipage documents should be batched together into single DejaVu files.

Anyway, I imagine that I'm not the only one taking extensive photographs of documents, so I'd appreciate the feedback of any intrepid souls who would like to try this out. I'll make an XPI when I'm back on Linux.

Hi Joscha,
Thanks for the update!

I have tried it a few days and everything seem to work, though my testing may not encompass every aspect of Zotfile (e.g., I deal only with PDF).

It doesn't matter for the "paper-clip drop-down menu", in my opinion; "one shot" button(s) might be more useful.

I would like to add some suggestions of features if you wish to implement them some day:

1. It would be great to enable automatic action (rename-move-link) whenever a file is attached —either through the source folder or through Zotero automatic download of references (see ZoteRename).
   


2. Managing the option through a menu of preferences would be especially useful for the third point (see my preceding message for info).
   


3. It would be wonderful to have a "tool" for the users in order to get different actions or options according to the types of files and/or the collections and/or source directory(ies)...
   By "tool", I mean the simplest way for both the programmer and the user to manage such functionnalities. I suppose that it may involve the user to code some lines; the aim would be to reduce these by predefined "module" that one can just copy/paste and change the parameters... (for example).
   

I should admit that for know, these functionalities may look a bit superfluous with regards to current Zotero's ability with collections (e.g., no intersection of saved searches like in EndNote). However, I would really appreciate to classify my documents at different locations (or hierarchisation) according to their nature.

Thanks again!
Thierry

plugin works for me... Thanks!

In fact it was more suggestions or ideas than recommendations, and I certainly won't complain about a plug-in that is kindly develop on your spare time ;-)
I will give it a try if I manage to allocate some time for it.

I am not sure I understand your description of the bug you mention: by "new Firefox windows", you mean if one opens a link in a new window? Like with Maj+ clic?

By the way, do you know why there is no icon (in the address bar) to directly insert a reference when a pdf is opened within the browser?
Of course, this has nothing to do with the plug-in, but I wonder if this could be implemented in Zotero... It is obviously useful.

OK, thanks.
However, are there no metadata to be extracted from the PDF ? (even bad ones...) There is often no translator on websites where I open PDFs. Therefore, it would be very useful to fetch them directly ; in some sense in the same way as "snapshot of the page".
Or do I miss a tip to do this by another quick way?

Thanks. But well, in fact, it does not work if in the preferences, the following is uncheck "Make an automatic capture of the page during the creation of an element from a Web page" (translated from french...).
I unchecked it because otherwise it creates a useless snapshot of each webpage associated with an article from ScienceDirect or other platform.
Besides, it takes more time than the clic on the icon (opening Zotero takes a while when the number of references are high).
Anyway, that's at least a possibility.

I finally decided to give this great plugin a try. Thanks Joscha for all the work.

I installed and configured v1.5 as per the instructions but I cannot find any new menu items to actually use Zotfile. Am I missing something? I am on Win7 64bit, FF 3.6.13, Zotero 2.0.9

Also, since you now allow users to organize files into subfolders based on metadata, would it be possible to use collection names in the rules? I know this would be quite a challenge with nested subcollections and you would have to pick a single collection if an iteam appears in more than one.

Hi,

fbennett, are you using the 2.1beta or 2.0?

Lubos, I am trying to figure out whether the current version only works with the Zotero 2.1beta. I had to made a change for the Zotero as a tab feature and now I am afraid that zotfile does not work with zotero 2.0 anymore. Can you try this version and tell me whether you can see the menu items when you right click a zotero item:

http://www.columbia.edu/~jpl2136/zotfile_150_test.xpi

Joscha, I have tried your link on Zotero 2.0.9 under Opensuse 11.3/Firefox 3.6.13 and it works, I can see the Zotfile menu items and they work as expected.

Thanks for the great plugin, this makes Zotero much much more usable!

Tried, works.

okay, the version on mozilla addons is updated. You should get this one and not the one from columbia.edu so that zotfile is automatically updated...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zotfile/

Here are the changes again:

The new version supports batch processing of existing attachments, which I think a lot of people find useful (at least there have been frequent request about it). So you can basically change the zotfile renaming rules, select all your zotero items and rename all the attachment using data from the respective zotero item by clicking one button (please be careful with this option for now).

Here is a summary of the new features:
- Support for Firefox 4 and Zotero 2.1 (including support of zotero as a tab)
- batch processing of existing attachments (renames and moves all attachments of selected items according to Zofile rules)
- allows the user to organize files into subfolders using zotero metadata
- bug related to multiple zotero windows resolved
- The zotfile icon was replaced by two right-click menu items

Is it possible to rename individually?