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wshanks / Zutilo

Zotero plugin providing some additional editing features
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Provide menu item for item URI and zotero select link #25

Closed gustavdelius closed 10 years ago

gustavdelius commented 10 years ago

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.

wshanks commented 10 years ago

Sure, these seem reasonable. I will look into adding them. I guess these would be two similar but distinct menu items.

gustavdelius commented 10 years ago

That is great, thanks. Yes, I think these should be distinct menu items.

wshanks commented 10 years ago

I have taken a look at these now. They should be easy to add. Do you think it is useful to allow these functions to work on selections of more than one item? If so, how do you think the links should be combined?

gustavdelius commented 10 years ago

Interesting idea. I will not use the feature for more than one reference at a time but I do see your point that it would be sort of natural if it worked more generally with any selection. But I have no particular view of what the best way to combine the links would be. Presumably something simple like comma separated so that it would be easy for the user to edit into the desired form.