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  • This has been brought up in the past: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1233/better-handling-of-unfiled-items/ http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/7168/how-do-people-orginise-their-content/ (and more!) And there's a ticket for it: https://www.zote…
  • One minor issue-- the short title should be dropped when converting a book into a book section, since it should refer to a short title of the section; it appears that revision 5526 will leave the short title intact.
  • wonderpup: I don't know Colleen's situation in particular, but I imagine there are plenty of seasoned researchers who understand how to do research-- what they need is an introduction to migrating from their card file or other previous system. Acade…
  • Colleen: Please take a look at my comments above, as well as the pictorial depictions of adding items at Getting stuff into your library, which Mark noted above. If you still find this confusing, then post what you've tried to do and we'll try to he…
  • I would like to get these changes back into zotero, but so far no one has taken the bait. Since translators require code review before they are pushed to Zotero clients, you should join the zotero-dev group and post your updated code there. The Zot…
  • When I click the Add Item by Identifier magic wand, the window opens on the primary monitor. Now this sounds like a real bug. So if you are working in Zotero on your secondary monitor, and you add an item in using the magic wand, then a new Firefox …
  • You may also want to look at the thread: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/7009/dspace-translators-not-longer-valid/ . Since I've never worked much with DSpace, I haven't been following closely, but it sounds like DSpace repositories after a certa…
  • One more thing you may or may not be aware of: if you know the beginning of the title, just starting to type it when the items list has focus will move the selection to that item. More precisely, if you start typing, the selection will move to a mat…
  • How do I enter documents? First, click on the Zotero icon in the bottom-right corner of your Firefox window. Then click the (+) icon in top row of the panel that opens. Select the type of document you need, then fill in the fields that appear in the…
  • Madeline, Since Zotero is a free, open source project, it doesn't have the resources to provide phone support for its users. This forum is the main place people come for support, but if you'd like in-person support, you might want to try resour…
  • Can we think a little about how this should work? I have two possible forms of notification in mind: (1) An icon or additional line of information in the rectangle at bottom right; (2) A window or pseudo-collection showing the files and items cu…
  • That'll probably require some work by the Zotero core developers. In order to help them out, generate and submit debug output, as described in the Debug Output Logging instructions. Post the Debug ID in this thread, and someone will take a look.
  • Could just bibs reach the storage limit or has the erasure of files not been acknowledged? Ordinary bibliographic information (Zotero items) are not counted towards your Zotero File Storage quota-- it is stored separately. ZFS and WebDAV are used fo…
  • Hopefully the main Zotero development group (which I am not a member of) will approve it and integrate into a version of Zotero soon. My understanding is that you need only ask for Trac/SVN access and put your translators into SVN. They'll be checke…
  • As has been stated many times, this is not something that the core team of Zotero developers is able to do with its very limited resources. There is, however, an API supported by the Zotero server that would make it possible for other intereste…
  • You should probably upgrade to the latest version of the Zotero 1.0 plugin (1.0.10), or even to the 2.0 betas first of all--- many, many bugs have been fixed since 1.0.0.0! The betas are quite stable-- I've never had a data-loss bug in using them.
  • I am able to add the paper fine by entering 10.1145/1287620.1287621 into the field. Note that extra text can prevent it from being found-- http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1287620.1287621 won't work, for example.
  • Perhaps some of Lee's concerns could be addressed if there were a way to easily send references to people-- I'm imagining users dragging and dropping Zotero items into their calendar items, emails, etc. and getting more than a plain-text citation. I…
  • My understanding is that if/when CSL gets support for journal abbreviation lists, then this should be doable as well. Frank could probably confirm this, but in that case biblical journal styles could specify lists of biblical studies encyclopedias a…
  • I have been seeing exactly this behavior for some time. Here's my debug: D701484256.
  • I had this error on updating to 2.0b7.6, but it disappeared after restarting Firefox. I imagine you've already restarted it, but if you haven't...
  • That certainly does sound like a Bibtex exporter bug then. I get the same behavior, and only for January. It doesn't matter how I enter January, either as (say) 1980-01 or January 1980, or anything else. Funny that this hadn't been caught earli…
  • When you place your cursor over the date field inside Zotero, what does Zotero show? That will show you what date Zotero is interpreting your input as. As I understand it, if your browser locale is set to something other than English, then Zotero …
  • Another user has reported that the legal search function of Google Scholar is not supported by Zotero: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/9928/google-scholar-adds-legal-search-when-will-translator-be-added/ . The behavior described above seems…
  • @fbennett: Have you been using some sort of workaround with Zotero to meet your multilingual needs? I haven't been able to do more than read the citeproc-js documentation and wish that it worked today; it looks good, and I can only wish that I had a…
  • Barring any unexpected complaints, the variant subtag "alalc97" will be approved in the near future. Since we're in the world of bibliography here, that subtag should cover many transliterations that are likely to be needed with Zotero. It should so…
  • Now, when able-bodied users perform a keyword search in a fulltext online database such as EBSCOhost, they can click on individual items and view the PDF within a web browser. This sound like individual page images displayed in the browser, not PDFs…
  • noksagt said, re: JPEGs and MP3: "As far as I know, no such functionality exists in firefox." There are, however, open-source Firefox plugins that support this (see Exif viewer: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3905); perhaps li…
  • I often find myself in the same position as ghzou-- I quickly jot down the basic bibliographic info on a source, then at a later date use that to look it up in a catalog, often even using Zotero's "locate" function. At that later date, I want to fle…