The title pretty much sums it up: Under OS X 10.11.2 and in Zotero Standalone 4.0.28.8 with Zutilo 1.3.0 and by using a previously set keyboard shortcut (cmd+alt+ctrl+shift+e; but that is probably not it…) Zutilo initially does what it should and removes all Tags from an entry. Alas, there's problems when I afterwards want to add new tags: I can start to add them, meaning, I can add a new tag, fill in the title field of the new tag, but when I press return, the tag appears to have never been created in the first place.

EDIT: I should've added, that a workaround for the bug is to restart Zotero.

Hello, Thanks for the shared work. I have Tags in a clipboard entry separated by a comma ( - expecting convert comma separated String to Tag list -), the copy(?) does not parse at a comma nor semi-colon, ... is that correct, Best,

Hi,

I think Zotero users would benefit from a function similar to "Copy select item links" but which provides the absolute path to an attachment (it could be called, e.g., "Copy select attachment links"). Since there may be several attachments linked to a Zotero item, this function could be triggered by clicking on the attachment that we want to get the address.

The underlying idea is that I have many files in Zotero that I need to upload, so being able to get the absolute address of the attachments would enable me to paste that information directly into the upload dialog box. Currently, I need to click on "show file" which open the explorer and then get the address for each file.

Thank you very much for developing such application; it really helps!

Best,

Aleix

At some point, Zutilo needs to be made compatible with e10s as described in these documents:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Working_with_multiprocess_Firefox
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiprocess_Firefox/The_message_manager
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiprocess_Firefox/Limitations_of_chrome_scripts

Complete compatibility testing can not take place until Zotero itself is made e10s compatible and that likely won't happen until Mozilla announces the time line for e10s being merged into Firefox Beta and Release.

According to the links, web page content is no longer accessible to the main add-on code. Also, there is a comment about loading XUL into a tab needing to be done in a different way. Here are the issues that will likely need to be addressed for e10s compatibility:

• Attach page to Zotero item (right now Zutilo access the current page's url via window.content which is no longer accessible).
• The way Zutilo loads content into separate windows (the README and warning) need to be checked.
• The way Zutilo works with the browser tab version of Zotero needs to be checked (once Zotero is e10s compatible).

Has the "Modify attachment paths" function in Zutilo been tested with networked drives? I have tried without success. I go through the motions, but the link does not change. I have also tried with the UNC path as opposed to the mapped drive letter.

I use Zutilo 1.2.4 on Zotero 4.0.12, FF 23.0.1, and OS X 10.8.4. As in the title, Zutilo context menu items doesn't appear on Zotero in a separate tab, but does appear on the pane mode. I tried both Zotero context menu & Zutilo context menu modes, but both didn't work on the separate tab.

I have not found a similar functionality yet in zotero. I started to save my own manuscripts as Zotero manuscripts, Quotes as "instant-Messages" and so on. Saving Books from Firefox is now very cool even from shops like O'Reilly. Very cool.

So using the dedicated types would make it much easier to scan items in the list when they have appropriate icons, fields etc. Then you need not to "invent" personal tags to reflect these.

So the target is to select an existing type and do a smart migration to another type by selecting from a menu.

This is just a proposal.

I exprimented with local shortcuts for Zutilo function via the Zutilo prefs interface. Under "Duplicate entry" (I'm using a German localisation and FF interface) I added "spacebar" as the shortcut – an admittedly daft idea. However, trying to disable the shortcut I find that I cannot do so. What works with every other entry (add/disable personal shortcuts via the interface) does not work for duplicate entry. (The the shortcut slot for Duplicate entry neither shows "disabled" nor what the spacebar would produce in any other field, which is "VK_space". A reinstall of the add-on doesn't help – my preferences including the buggy one are preserved somewehre. I'm using ZoteroQuicklook and its spacebar functions many times a day – and now duplicate all my viewed entries... Had to deactivate Zutilo to stop this from happening but would love to keep it's very useful funtionality. Any ideas how to fix this? Delete my prefs and start anew? Thanks

Hi!

Zutilo is such a useful add-on! So time saving. However there is still one issue, I can get solved with Zutilo.

I often have to move notes from one citation to another ones and I find it very difficult to do. I have to find a way to get the two citations in the central windows (usually I tag them with a dummy tag) and then at last I can drag the note from one citation to another.

I wonder if it would be possible to add a feature in Zutilo that will make this procedure a lot easier. A simple right-click, cut the note (or move the note to another citation) would ba a very welcome feature!

Thanks a lot for your time!

Frequently, I have several items that are book chapters and I want to update a field in all of them - such as adding the city of the publisher. Is there any way (or can it be planned) to copy/paste other fields, or even to have a user-selected group of fields copy/pasted? Or is this what "QuickCopy items to clipboard" is supposed to do? I didn't see any mention of quickcopy in the documentation and I can't figure it out.

Thanks!

Would it be feasible?
In Zotero it's Zotero_Report_Interface.loadItemReport(event) but what is the event?

Cf. zoteroPane.xul ; reportInterface.js ; xpcom\report.js

Thanks!

Zutilo 1.2.10.1 (the latest released version from AMO) searches for zotero-status-image-context in line 310 of firefoxOverlay.js, which errors out because it doesn't exist anymore after zotero/zotero@9a87f15#diff-a42cc3f2f595999239df2741cc274f59L71.

In the documentation it is said explilcitly for "Copy select item links": "Following links from other applications and having the links select items in the Zotero Standalone client may also be achievable but might require additional set up."

However, I wonder if there is any indication of how to proceed in Linux. I understand that I'd eventually need to define a URI handler for xdg-open. However, even before that, it seems that Zotero Standalone, in Linux, ignores any additional arguments when called, regardless of whether or not Zutilo is installed. So there seems to be no way of having Zotero Standalone to follow a link in Linux. (This is in contrast to Firefox, where a call from the shell as
firefox zotero://select/items/ID will do the expected thing, whether or not Zutilo is not installed).

(Note: for the record, I've asked this in the Zotero forum , but the question there did not involve Zutilo. I am asking here in case Zutilo provides some additional functionaly that might make this work with standalone).

Currently, Zutilo works fine when Zotero is used as a browser pane in Firefox. However, when Zotero is set to open in a separate tab or the app tab, Zutilo does not seem to be initialized properly. The item it adds to Zotero's actions menu (which launches Zutilo's preferences window) is not present and Zotero.Zutilo.init() is not called (a window load eventListener should launch it).

Some parts of Zutilo are being loaded though because its preferences window can still be accessed via the Addons Manager. Parts of this window are generated dynamically by methods of Zotero.Zutilo defined in zutilo.js, so it seems like the Zotero.Zutilo object is being created.

The issues are all basically the same with Zotero Standalone, except that it does not populate the preferences window. This might just be because Zutilo never loads properly and so never creates its preferences. Then when the functions that populate the preferences window try to access these undefined preferences it crashes.

Hello,

First, let me thank you for creating such a useful add-on. However, there is a common feature I would like to have as a shortcut, which is adding a pdf file stored in my computer.

I have to do this for every single reference I add, and I believe there are many people like me. I believe it would be fairly easy to make.

Please take this into consideration :) Thank you.

Add "Remove tags" to the context menu when items are selected in the center pane. This has been brought up a number of times on the forums and I figured it would be a fitting addition to Zutilo.

Would it be possible to add the "Add stored attachment" and "Add link to URI" functions to the shortcut menu?

There is a discussion at the zotero forum about a "one-click" option for making a chapter from a book. The current way is a multiple-click workflow: dublicate the book item, change the item type of the book item into book section (and maybe confirm the loose of some information).

A one-click option sounds for me similar to some functionalities you already have implemented in zutilo. Would it be possible to add such a feature?

This looks quite useful, but the Readme is a pain to read online. If you just add a markdown extension (.md) things like line breaks will look nice automatically on github & you can add things like headers using markdown.

Line 62 of ZutiloChrome.js needs to be fixed for checking if the preferences window has been opened yet.

Until this is fixed, please access Zutilo's preferences from the Addons page.

Sometimes one wants to insert into a note a link to a zotero item. Either a link to the item in the local zotero (i.e. a link of the form zotero://select...), or a link to the item on the zotero web site (of the form http://zotero.org/users/nnnnn/items/..... It would be nice if Zutilo could provide a menu items for copying such links to the clipboard. I think this functionality is a good fit for Zutilo.

Currently that functionality is only available via custom translators, see http://zoteromusings.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/zotero-item-uris-from-client/ for a description. But that is inconvenient because one can then only use that functionality or the usual bibliography quick copy functionality.

As suggested in #27, a function to create a book from a book section could be implemented as the reverse of the function for create a book section from a book.

This is just a reminder to fix the german translation of the docs, I (or someone) needs to finish at:

https://github.com/willsALMANJ/Zutilo/blob/master/chrome/locale/de/zutilo/README.html

todo:

• convert back to markdown without word wraps using pandoc -> document this in #20
• remove word wraps manually if necessary.
• fix the translation from about the middle
• reformat some prose to lists (after the main doc is fixed in english) see #17, #19

It seems like these functions might have been broken by a recent Zotero update, but more testing is needed.

Zutilo is extremely useful for me. Many thanks for the extension!

Zutilo is not working properly for me on Zotero Standalone.

I have Zutilo installed on both Zotero Firefox and Zotero Standalone (I did 'install add-on from file for the latter). Zutilo shows in an item's right-click context menu in Zotero for Firefox, both in pane/frame and tab views. However, in Zotero standalone, there is no 'Zutilo' item in the item right-click context menu. I tried reinstalling Zotero standalone. I tried variations on the options for Zutilo menu items being in Zotero/Zutilo/hide. I am sharing the Zotero Firefox and Zotero Standalone data directory, so that should bet the same.

I'm running Win 7 x64. I have installed: Zutilo 1.1.11, Zotero 3.0.11, Zotfile 2.2.4, and Zotero Word for Windows integration 3.1.9.

Thanks for your help.

This looks quite useful, but the Readme is a pain to read online. If you just add a markdown extension (.md) things like line breaks will look nice automatically on github & you can add things like headers using markdown.

The latest commit changing the version check of Zotero during install to "*" is not released. Trying to follow alternate install methods was not successfull.

I used Zotero Standalone 4.0.4 on MacOSX 10.8.2.

The german version came up again with something similar to:

"The Installation failed"
"The extension "%S" could not be installed. It may be incompatible with this version of Zotero Standalone."

This using both install methods:

1. from xpi archive (checked out from github and rezipped)
2. from local clone (checked out from github and linked via the file in the extension folder).

Hint: this file may be deleted by Mozilla during startup! Take care of a backup before.

Thank you for this product! Waiting for the next release.

Armin

The symlinked documentation files just show up as symlinks with no way to click through. It should be as easy as possible to get to the documentation.

2.0.1 still works fine in Zotero Standalone but disappeared from the context menu in Palemoon 26.2.2 64bit. No error message. Options in Addons works OK.

Hi, I am sorry but i have tried for a while to work out how to install Zutilo into my zotero standalone. at this point I am wondering whether it is really possible, and how I can do that. Is there anyone that can help me in this matter?
Thanks a lot,
Alfredo

Zotero Standalone updated yesterday to 4.0.5, and then again today to 4.0.6, and Zutilo 1.1.17 is not compatible with either one. Will a new version of Zutilo that is compatible become available soon?

It is not possible to copy tags from a standalone note (or other child items). Why not? I sometimes tag them also and then find a website, etc. with similiar topic, so I want to copy the tags from a note (or other child item) too.

I can fairly easily generate a Python module that takes a file name and, if it is a PDF, extracts the text, analyzes it, and generates tags to add to the library item. I do not, however, have the expertise to integrate that code into Zutilo or a new Zotero add-on without a steep learning curve.

If this is a reasonable match for Zutilo, and anyone is interested in doing the integrating, please contact me and I'll get to work on the keyword generation.

Working in HTML directly for writing docs is quite hard. I am using Sphinx http://sphinx-doc.org/ and reStructuredText to create my docs and it is much more efficient and readable.

We can transfer the existing HTML in one step _[1] to reStructuredText or Markdown using pandoc. Both markups are supported by github to render the pages online. I can do this experimentally in the german translation.

.. _[1] Important for all languages after they are in one state to keep diffs working from that point on.

Personally I would prefer reStructuredText because you can use then use Sphinx to generate the HTML and a documentation website automatically and independent from githubs rendering. But that may interfere with other workflows so I am comfortable to earn as well.

Hello,

I have an issue with Zotero stand alone (latest version, OS X) and Zutilo (latest version).

When I install Zutilo, and assign keys for "Edit item info" and "Add tag", both work. When I then restart Zotero, "Edit item info" no longer works, while "Add tag" works as before.

(When using the corresponding Zotero / Zutilo functions via keyconfig, I believe this issue didn't occur. That is to say, if I create a shortcut, and call the relevant javascript directly, I believe that the issue didn't occur.)

Thanks!

This is a follow-up to previous issue #6.

After using "modify attachment paths" to change drive letters from a network to local drive for linked pdfs and then using "show attachment paths" to confirm the change, everything seemed to be ok. However, after shutting down Firefox and restarting, the changes are not saved.

I learned this when changes that I knew I had made in linked pdfs were not showing up when re-visited. The changes had actually been made on the (old) network copy of the pdf.

This may not be an issue with Zutilo, but any suggestions are welcome.

Just a suggestion...

The recent changes to the behavior of the URL icon in the Zotero beta (zotero/zotero@9a87f15) break the "Save without attachments" feature. There is no longer a right-click menu, and the options don't appear in the new dropdown menu.

Any new versions coming? I hope so, since I've grown to be quite dependent on these add ons

Thanks!
Roey

When you visit a book on Amazon or other sites with proper dublin.core metadata markup, you can e.g. auto create Zotero entries of the matching type "book", by clicking the "book" icon in the address bar of Chrome and Firefox. On Amazon.com, inside of a book entry a sub entry object is created with the stereotypic name 'Amazon.com Link'.

• the object has an editable name, the link and a richtext field as properties.
• Additional to the minimum link target, the whole session information is contained in the captured link. This leads to unwanted leakage of user information if the Zotero entry is clicked, shared or copied.
• Unfortunately the link cannot be edited. Even rightclicking does not allow copying and instead rightclicking visits the link at once.

Feature for Zutilo:

add menu commands/actions in context of the 'Amazon.com Link' or parent to:

• Allow limiting the link to the main content. by stripping out the session info, as long as the link is matching the current schema. -> "Strip session data from Amazon.com Link..."
• Make the link editable in a dialog window. -> "Edit Amazon.com Link..."
• Move the Amazon link into the (empty) URL field of the parent book object. -> "Copy Amazon.com Link to empty parent book URL..."
• "Copy Amazon.com Link..."

(the menu reading is in the quotes after the -> symbol)

Add support for this menu item (which I use a lot).

As features have been added, things have been getting a little cluttered. Some things I would like to see done:

• Main README section trimmed down to a digestible summary of Zutilo features aimed at new users.
  • It should include an overview of the kinds of functions present in Zotero along with links to the detailed documentation, the attachments discussion, the contributors page, and the changelog.
  • The installation instructions will likely remain in this main section. They should include also a getting started section mentioning the configurability of Zutilo's item menu functions and shortcuts.
• Detailed documentation page with sections for
  • Item menu functions
  • Firefox browser functions
  • Keyboard shortcuts (broken into subsections of similar functionality)
• Attachments discussion moved to separate page
• Changelog moved to separate page
• Contributors information moved to separate page
  • Remove all .html files from the git repository once this page exists and is updated to describe the build script that generates them.
• Set the default item menu function visibility on a per function basis. Right now, all functions default to the Zutilo submenu, but some of them are low use enough that they could start off hidden
• Assign categories to keyboard shortcuts and display them in the preferences tree view. Then have the tree sort by category, so that there is more organization rather than just one long list of shortcuts.
• Update translations for documentation and recent UI strings.

This issue is just a reminder that PR #24 is still open and needs to be merged in. -- Sorry for the long delay. I haven't had much time for Zutilo recently and I want to finish streamlining the translation workflow before merging this patch because it requires strings that will need to be localized.

cf. zotero/zotero#466
but in the meantime, could it be possible to add Dan's solution here : https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/35837/switcher-for-quick-copy-format/?Focus=190328#Comment_190328

I have Zotero Standalone 4.0.29.10 installed and Zutilo 2.0.1 plugin.

If I select a document in my Zotero Library, right click and select Zutilo -> Copy Tags, I get the following error:

Zutilo: item selection error
Please select at least one regular item or note.

If I select a parent item, the error does not occur.

Can I use Zutilo to copy tags directly on items?
Most of my Library does not use Parent Item.

Brett

I think this is not the intended behavior: when I click on an entry or on its attachment and I request to be shown the attachment path I get something like storage:name_of_file. So what is missing is the full directory path. In case it matters, I use a custom data directory location (~/Zotero-data) and, from it, the storage subdirectory is a link to another place (~/Zotero-storage). I am running Zotero Standalone in Linux.

There are some sections of the README that can be made more readable if they are split from prose to bullet points or definition lists.

see ticket #20 "Switch the documentation source from HTML to reStructuredText or Markdown" for making these changes easier.

This leads to make every fact a line and much easier to scan and find. Especially when functions are described with keywords an description.

Switching only in the translation leads to confusion. So the best would be to update the canonical text in EN appropriate (what I can do as well) and then make the diffs checkable for translators.

Zotero: 4.0.29.5, Zutilo last Updated 05/09/2016 on OSX.

My shortcuts don't work anymore. In about:config they are still there, but not available in Zotero or in the Add-On dialogue.

Too many clicks to open it at the moment (with Standalone;  with Firefox, you can bookmark csledit.xul).
I wish I'd do it myself but I'm stuck. I tried win.Zotero_Preferences.openInViewer('chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul', true) without success (undefined).

Actually these are multiple independent notes, so

"Some notes on Zotero attachments" would be more precise and explicit, since attachments are a common term that can be ambiguous.

I stumbled over this during the german translation.