Necessary for accessibility

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/365900/#Comment_365900

Example where this would be useful

• Drag any item from group library A to group library B
• Remove that item from group library B
• Drag the same item from group library A to group library B. This does not succeed because the item is already in trash. This is not consistent how trash works in any other software that I use.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/16230/two-minor-search-box-feature-requests/

The small "Saving item..." overlay that appears on the bottom right corner of the web browser when importing an item should include information about attached items and snapshots.

The problem that this solves is the following: Even if I have chosen to automatically attach associated PDFs and other files when saving items, there is currently no way of knowing if the translator for a particular site supports saving files. The only way to know if an item was attached is to open Zotero and check if the new item has attachments.

Also a related issue is that a progress indicator of some sort would be useful because sometimes the attached files download slowly and appear with a delay. (This is probably a separate issue.)

In the QuickFormat dialog, clicking an item bubble produces a small popup that shows the item details. This popup should also show the name of the library from which the item is below the citation information for the item

This would help troubleshooting citing the same item from multiple libraries.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21696/chicago-note/#Item_26

How to replicate:

• Install Chrome extension and authorize it
• Delete the API key that was just created
• Try to inport any article

What happens is that Zotero reports the following error

"An error occurred while saving this item. Check Known Translator Issues for more information."

suggesting that this is a translator issue where in fact it is not. The error message should say that the API key is invalid (or missing) and point to instructions on how to fix this.

altt+drag on OS X should not change the cursor to "copy drag" if the drop target does not have a special handler for alt modifier. There are two ways this could be solved:

1. Check for alt modifier in the drop event and if it makes sense to copy (e.g. when you are moving an attachment to a new item it can be copied or moved), then copy instead of move

2. Disable changing the mouse cursor with alt altogether

Tested ar and fa locales.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21532

retrieve metadata for pdfs from google books consistently provides the same, wrong result for all books, by searching for a string from googles terms of service (which are the first page of all google books): http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/18280/thats-not-the-article-i-retrieved-metadata-for/#Item_18
the retrieve function should probably identify google books and then ignore the first page and maybe even query google books rather than google scholar in that case..

See Firefox prefs for an example

It would be very useful if zotero would remember the last directory for attaching files.

How to replicate:

1. Create a new collection in the root of My Library with the default name ("Untitled")
2. Repeat 1 nine times ("Untitled 2"-"Untitled 10")
3. Create a new collection

What happens:
The default name for the new collection is "Untitled 2"

What I would expect to happen:

The default name for the new collection is "Untitled 11"

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21906/suggestion-provide-reporting-for-merge-duplicates-process/#Comment_116271

When I import an item, I get the small "Saving item..." dialog to the bottom right corner of the browser. This should be modified to be "Saving item to {LIBRARY NAME}...". The advantage of doing this would be that I would immediately notice if I am saving items to a wrong library.

Blocks #35

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/835/change-case-automatically/#Item_7
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1991/names-variant-spellings-entities/#Item_3
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6418/list-of-feature-requests/#Item_6
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/12638#Item_5
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/15434/right-mouse-click-transform-text-enabled-for-author-fields/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/20842/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21613/transform-text-for-author-field/

https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/1307

Maybe we should do this.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21440/get-online-ref-from-desktop/

See here.
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/19871/snapshot-the-attached-file-could-not-be-found/
With the ad-block-plus plugin installed, snapshots sometimes are created, but later don't open. The New York Times is a popular victim. A user suggests it might be connected to googleads.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21303/ and some others

After attaching something to an item found in quick search, the quick search results are replaced by the full library or collection view. This is annoying.

And move localizers to website

To reduce startup time, we should delay DB initialization until n seconds after Firefox startup, or until the user makes a DB request.

Regarding: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/20840/

Allow me to repeat a request that was first made back in 2009. When importing an item from the clipboard, please create a mechanism that allows it to be directly imported into an open collection instead of into its own collection.

If I want to import items outside a collection (and I often do) I have created two collections in my library for this. One is "Temp" for items I don't know where I want to place them. Another is "Delete" for items that I'm almost sure that I want to view, use once, and send to the trash.

Each import from the clipboard into its own collection makes for lots of moving items into "real" collections and lots of deleting "one-time" collections.

Thanks

Right now one test for dragging to a collection is whether any child items are selected, in which case the drag is disallowed. Selecting all child items should be equivalent to selecting just the parent.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21083/fails-dragging-multiple-items-to-a-collection/#Item_11

We want to test export with a bunch of different items with pseudo-random combinations of fields to make sure it doesn't break.

Relabel "Create Bibliography from Selected Item" and add radio buttons for "Citation/Note" and "Bibliography" to the dialog

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21696/chicago-note/#Item_18

This became an issue with the new Chicago styles for users who don't know how to use citation Quick Copy.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21873/

The small "Saving item..." overlay that appears on the bottom right corner of the web browser when importing an item should include information about attached items and snapshots.

The problem that this solves is the following: Even if I have chosen to automatically attach associated PDFs and other files when saving items, there is currently no way of knowing if the translator for a particular site supports saving files. The only way to know if an item was attached is to open Zotero and check if the new item has attachments.

Also a related issue is that a progress indicator of some sort would be useful because sometimes the attached files download slowly and appear with a delay. (This is probably a separate issue.)

Among other things, this would permit us to enable proxy redirection in Zotero for Firefox when Standalone is open.

Valuable UI real estate in the right pane is currently wasted when no items are selected — it shows the uninformative message "No items selected". A much-requested piece of information that would be rather more relevant here is the number of items in the current view. Currently the only way to get that is to get into the middle pane and do a "select all" operation.

Proposal: Show item count in the right pane when no items are selected. The basic implementation could just have "n items in this view". A more sophisticated implementation would be context aware, with different wordings: n items with this tag, n items in this collection, n items in this library, n items found (for search results), etc.

Many people haved asked for items counts to be more easily available. I believe I have found a piece of UI clutter here (the "No items selected" phrase) that can be turned into a supremely useful piece of information and so make many users happy.

See
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/20414/change-no-items-selected-to-n-items-in-this-view-item-count-number-of-items-statistics

And don't show both options in context menu

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21626/

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/22060/

Before 66f51db all ZIP files were being detected as OpenDocument files. We should fix these for common extensions.

These files are always junk ad files. They're skipped or shortened when syncing already when they hit cross-platform issues, but they can interfere with backups and are unnecessary in any case.

I'm not sure what the test should be.

Mendeley allows this since more than two years - it would really make it much easier to paste a large amount of PDFs to the literature library.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/22025/merging-documents-zotero-303/

A potential pitfall here is that many websites timestamp the PDF, so the first page won't be identical, even if subsequent pages are and the content is the same. We might want to come up with a good heuristic to detect equality in these cases. One option would be to use pdftotext or pdf.js. Another option would be to assume that attachments with the same name are identical.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21614/

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/20385/

Resizing the Zotero pane is too hard. The click area should be at least a few pixels. Ideally we'd do that without increasing the visible area, though that may not be possible.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/22004/

When selecting/deselecting, no check appears.

Make items cited in open documents appear on the left side of the Zotero pane.