Accept Mendeley SQLite databases via File → Import… and perform a
direct import, including collections, timestamps, notes, attachments,
and extracted annotations.
When a Mendeley database is present, File → Import… shows a wizard that
lets you choose between a file and Mendeley for the source, and choosing
the latter shows a list of available databases in the Mendeley data
directory.
Known fields that aren't valid for a type are stored in Extra.
Files in the Mendeley 'Downloaded' folder are stored. Files elsewhere
are linked.
- Add a File Handling section to the General pane of the preferences,
and move several prefs from Miscellaneous to there
- Add a UI to that section for choosing the PDF handler
- Update Zotero.launchFileWithApplication() to use /usr/bin/open on
macOS if the handler is an .app (which it will be if set through the
chooser, since it's limited to Mac applications, though an executable
can still be set via the hidden pref if desired for some reason)
- Move prefs for style/translator updates and translator error reporting
(which isn't particularly relevant anymore in the client) to Advanced
By default the PDF handler chooser says "System Default", which isn't
the nicest thing, and there's probably a way to get/guess the system
default, since Firefox seems to know it (at least on macOS), but I
couldn't quickly find a way to do it.
Addresses #1450
Applies to dragging to the collections pane or the items pane, adding
via New Item menu, or saving via the connector server
If the renaming pref is enabled, the PDF is renamed after recognition.
Can be disabled in the preferences
Closes#917
Automatic renaming is now done for dragging of an external file onto an
item (as added in 7cb95f41) as well as dragging as a linked file,
dragging a non-native (not text or HTML) URL, "Attach Link to File…",
"Attach Stored Copy of File…", and "Retrieve Metadata for PDF". It only
applies if a single file is being added and if the parent item has no
non-HTML attachments. By default, the renaming only applies to PDFs, but
this can be changed with the renameAttachmentFiles.automatic.fileTypes
hidden pref.
A new General pref, "Automatically rename attachment files using parent
metadata", controls whether the renaming happens.
Files saved via web translators are renamed regardless of this pref,
because they would often be gibberish otherwise.
Closes#113
purgeDataObjects(), which runs at the beginning of the sync process,
uses transactions, and those can fail after the default wait timeout if
there's another active transaction. Instead, check explicitly for
another transaction and, if there is one, display a nice message and
wait for it to finish. This isn't foolproof, but it should reduce the
frequency of "operation timed out" sync errors. (Avoiding all long
transactions would be a better solution.)
"Delay citation updates until manual refresh" would be fine in the doc
prefs, but "until manual refresh" is a bit too awkward for the prompt.
Instead, go with @rmzelle's suggestion from #1242 of referring to
"automatic citation updates", and invert the checkbox.
- When a child note is opened in a separate window, the parent window is
selected. (This used to work but was broken in 5.0.)
- When a top-level note is opened (via double-click), the right-hand pane
changes to show "Editing in separate window".
- If a note that's currently open in a separate window is clicked on,
the right-hand pane shows "Editing in a separate window".
- If a note window is closed and the item is selected, the note editor
reappears in the right-hand pane after the note is saved.
This will avoid unnecessary UI updates and data loss bugs from the two
notes getting out of sync (and is just generally cleaner).
Also:
- General cleanup of note display code
Restores the "Restore to Zotero Server" functionality, now using the
API:
1. Get all remote keys and send `DELETE` for any that don't exist
locally.
2. Upload all local objects in full (non-patch) mode using only library
version so that the remotes are overwritten.
3. Reset file sync history, causing all files to be uploaded (or, more
likely, reassociated with existing remote files).
Since these are treated as regular updates on the server, they'll sync
down to other clients normally. Unsynced changes by other clients might
still trigger conflicts.
This and Reset File Sync History can also now be run on group libraries,
with a library selector in the Reset pane (which I forgot to do with
React).
The full sync option is now removed from the Reset pane, since there
wasn't ever really a reason to run it manually.
We should be able to reimplement Restore from Online Library (#1386)
using the inverse of this approach.
Closes#914
Can be an absolute path or 'profile' to use 'zotero' subdirectory of
profile directory as in earlier versions (but which won't be treated as
a legacy location eligible for migration)
Closes#1305
With the new system, it wasn't possible through the UI to generate debug
output for another action that happened after a restart, since it just
restarted immediately. This adds a prompt after selecting the menu
option that allows for restarting now, restarting later, or cancelling.
Better instructions and behavior if the data directory is inaccessible
or missing, including automatically detecting a directory at the default
location if the configured directory is missing and offering to use the
default instead. Together, this means that if, say, security software
prevents Zotero from accessing the data directory within the Firefox
profile, it will suggest that the user move it to ~/Zotero and then
prompt to use that directory.
Show "Copy Citation" and "Copy Bibliography" when a bib format is
selected and "Copy as BibTeX", etc., when an export is selected. If a
site-specific setting is in effect from the last active URL, use that
instead.
If no regular items are selected in bib mode, the menu options are
disabled.
This also now filters non-regular items out when in bib mode -- before
if you selected a combination it would include a bunch of 'n.d.' lines.
Closes#1155, Disable Copy Citation menu option when a translator is
selected for Quick Copy
Adds a submenu for quickly generating and submitting debug output, with
a button to copy the Debug ID to the clipboard and a one-click option to
restart with logging enabled. Debug output can also now be viewed in
real-time using the new debug output viewer window (previously available
only via a command-line flag).
The locale switcher has moved to the top of the Advanced prefpane (where
Debug Output Logging used to go) in a Miscellaneous section, and there's
a new "Advanced Configuration" section (mirroring Thunderbird) at the
bottom for "Config Editor".
Closes#1108
- Move csledit and cslpreview to a Tools section of the Cite pane as
Style Editor and Style Preview
- Rename "Open about:config" to "Config Editor"
- Hide about:memory unless devtools.errorconsole.enabled is enabled,
which isn't particularly appropriate and maybe we can find something
better, but about:memory doesn't really need to be visible by default
Closes#1264
It was previously set from general.useragent.locale, but that's not used
by default, meaning that date interpretation and some other things might
have been incorrect for everyone who didn't set a locale explicitly and
toggle matchOS...
"Report Errors" menu item was in Actions (gear) menu, which has been
hidden in 5.0 (cf. 82292eef77). It is now
accessible from the Help menu.
Adjust Report Error instructions accordingly.
Closes#1022
Could try to explain site-specific settings, but it's somewhat
complicated (requires the Zotero Connector, uses the last active tab
regardless of drag destination), so maybe enough to explain on the
linked documentation page.
- Replace Developers section with text that links to RRCHNM, the credits
page, and Get Involved.
- Remove dedicated zotero.org link
- Only show link underlines on hover
I think it might be worth having a tag management window that lets you
view tags as a grid, sort by column (e.g., type), select ranges, delete,
consolidate, etc., but until then, this fulfills a popular request.
Instead of My Publications being a separate library, have it be a
special collection inside My Library. Top-level items can be dragged
into it as before, and child items can be toggled off and on with a
button in the item pane. Newly added child items won't be shown by
default.
For upgraders, items in the My Publications library will be moved into
My Library, which might result in their being duplicated if the items
weren't removed from My Library. The client will then upload those new
items into My Library.
The API endpoint will continue to show items in the separate My
Publications library until My Publications items are added to My
Library, so the profile page will continue to show them.
This allows for imported items to be saved individually instead of being
saved in a batch after processing the entire imported file (which for
large imports would hang the UI, even if the actual saving was
asynchronous). This also fixes the progress meter during asynchronous
saves.
To take advantage of this, import translators will need to return a
promise when available (using the native Promise object) from doImport()
and wait for optional promises from item.complete().
The logic here can probably be streamlined further. (E.g., we might be
able to say that item.complete() always returns a promise.) It's
complicated by the fact that, at the moment, Promise isn't available in
child sandboxes, though this can probably be fixed.
Tests forthcoming, but they require a translator that supports this,
which needs to be committed separately.
View with -w for a cleaner diff.
- Add Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-I for "Import…"
- Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-V apparently pastes without formatting, so don't override it.
Instead, add a shortcut key to the menu option, defaulting to
Cmd-Option-Shift-I/Ctrl-Alt-Shift-I
- The I in both is now localizable
- Make version copyable
- Include "What's new" link to changelog
- Update some links and descriptions
To-do:
- Replace dev credits with a nice statement like in the Firefox About pane
And change "Changes take effect in new windows" to "Changes take effect
after restart"
(The note font size still requires a restart, as do the shortcut keys in
the Advaned pane.)
And treat an existing non-empty directory as a failure during the
migration, since it should now never happen
Also suggest manually moving on Windows if more than 100 attachments
* Mark feedItems read in a single batch SQL update
* Automatically remove old feed items
* User-facing preference globally and per-feed for feed item expiration
- Don't block the UI with a progress meter during imports. Instead, show
a popup in the bottom right when the import is done that shows how
many items were saved.
- Fix hang when importing some files
- Fix various problems with asynchronous operations/transactions
- Use the save queue for imports instead of creating concurrent
transactions that can time out
- Wait for the save to finish before returning from the translate()
promise. All save modes now use the save queue, so code that
handled the non-save-queue process can probably be removed.
- Serialize child attachments instead of running them concurrently.
This might make multi-attachment saves a little slower, since they
can't download at the same time, but it avoids problems with
concurrent transactions. We might be able to improve this to allow
concurrent downloads, or allow concurrent saves for a limited
number of items (e.g., from web saving) if not for larger imports.
- Change collection handling during import, since UI is now active
- Select the root collection at the beginning of the import
- Assign items and collections to the root during the import instead
of at the end
- Don't select other collections
- Change a few ItemSaver functions to use promises and remove
unnecessary callbacks. (This includes some connector code that needs
to be tested.)
- Change some `parentID` variables in ItemSaver to `parentItemID` for
clarity, since collections are now handled in more places
To-do:
- Save items in smaller batches instead of doing all in the same
transaction
- Show progress meter in a bottom-right popup during the import
It would be good for people not to kill the process indiscriminately, but the
migration will theoretically pick up where it left off, so it shouldn't be too
big a deal.
Would be nice to have a determinate progress meter on Windows, but that
will require enumerating all files, which maybe would just make things
slower. Might be safer, though, by discouraging people from
force-quitting.
This adds a new button to the Advanced prefs to migrate the data directory to
$HOME/Zotero. The button only appears if the data directory is set to the
default location within a profile directory (including the other program from
the one running, even though that's technically stored as a custom data
directory).
On Mac/Linux, directories within the data directory are moved with /bin/mv. On
Windows, or if that fails, they're copied recursively using OS.File.move()
(which annoyingly doesn't reliably support directory moving). The former should
be instantaneous on most systems (unless the data directory or 'storage' were
on a different filesystem from $HOME).
If the database fails to transfer, migration fails and the data directory
setting remains on the old directory. If the database transfers but other files
fail, the data directory setting is updated. In both cases, the user is
encouraged to migrate remaining files manually with a button that reveals the
directories and quits the program.
This isn't yet tested on Linux or Windows, and migration isn't yet suggested
automatically.
Adds Zotero.File.reveal(), Zotero.File.directoryIsEmpty(), and
Zotero.File.moveDirectory().
- Use $HOME/Zotero if zotero.sqlite exists, and set it as a custom data
directory so that 4.0 uses it if loaded (resulting in a
newer-db-version error instead of an empty database)
- Don't prompt whether to use data directory from the other version's
profile directory (i.e., Firefox or Standalone) -- just do it
This could be extended to address #118/#145, but for now it makes some of the
more common search conditions (Creator, Collection, etc.) more prominent.
Clicking it cancels the current window, opens the Cite pane of the
prefs, and selects the Styles tab. (This will be more useful once we
have inline style installation from that pane.)
On reset, items are overwritten with pristine versions if available and deleted
otherwise, and then the library is marked for a full sync. Unsynced/changed
files are deleted and marked for download.
Closes#1002
Todo:
- Handle API key access change (#953, in part)
- Handle 403 from data/file upload for existing users (#1041)
This is necessary because you can copy a database synced with a
different account into the data directory without affecting the stored
pref.
Also tweak the text to use proper quotes and remove quaint references to
"the server".
- Only show first pane (without Sharing pane) if no files or files
aren't included
- Update authorship checkbox to reflect file include setting to avoid
confusion
- Clarify in intro text that license applies to files, not notes --
notes here are no different than notes in any public library, so it's
sort of up to the user to clarify those if they're substantial enough
for it to matter
- Adjust alignment of authorship checkbox if more than one line
The on-change auto-sync now syncs only the modified library, and does so
quite efficiently (and should be able to be made more efficient), so we
might be able to reduce the timeout below 15 seconds.
- Hide notes, tags and related for feed items in itembox
- Add feed support for <enclosure> elements
- Add feed syncing methods for synced settings (additional work is
needed on the sync architecture to download synced settings from the
server)
- Change feed item clear policy to be less aggressive
- Adjust for deasyncification
- Disable translate-on-select
- Closeadomasven/zotero#7, Remove context menu items from feeds
Fixes the incompatible-version dialog and adds info on the version used
to upgrade the database, which may be helpful for troubleshooting.
Also fixes showing of the Zotero toolbar icons even in case of a startup
error.
Also:
- Remove last-sync-time mechanism for both WebDAV and ZFS, since it can
be determined by storage properties (mtime/md5) in data sync
- Add option to include synced storage properties in item toJSON()
instead of local file properties
- Set "Fake-Server-Match" header in setHTTPResponse() test support
function, which can be used for request count assertions -- see
resetRequestCount() and assertRequestCount() in webdavTest.js
- Allow string (e.g., 'to_download') instead of constant in
Zotero.Sync.Data.Local.setSyncState()
- Misc storage tweaks
Improves UX of sync authentication.
The account is now linked and unlinked and an API key related to
the client is generated transparently in the background.
The API key is deleted on unlinking.
No sync options are allowed before linking an account.
