Feature Request: Open-Open in Zotero

[chrisgrieser]

Feature Request: Open-Open in Zotero

[chrisgrieser]

okay, added the ability to open attachment files directly via ctrl+alt+cmd+return (sorry, there aren't enough modifiers left). Attachment files are files that have the key "file" or "attachment" in the BibTeX entry.

The Alfred gallery will auto-update within ~2-3 days, or you can simply download the new version directly:
https://github.com/chrisgrieser/alfred-bibtex-citation-picker/releases/download/11.14.0/alfred-bibtex-citation-picker.alfredworkflow

[chrisgrieser]

Makes sense. However, I personally do not use Zotero, so I am not really familiar with the internals of how it works.

Currently this workflow opens the entry by calling the URI scheme zotero://select/items/bbt:{CITEKEY}. Do you (or anyone else) know of a URI scheme that does open the file like you described? Something like that would be required to be able to implement such a feature.

[kzssc]

Makes sense. However, I personally do not use Zotero, so I am not really familiar with the internals of how it works.

Currently this workflow opens the entry by calling the URI scheme zotero://select/items/bbt:{CITEKEY}. Do you (or anyone else) know of a URI scheme that does open the file like you described? Something like that would be required to be able to implement such a feature.

Thanks for the immediate reply, Chris.

Personally i don't know of anything/anyone that has a better way. (I vaguely remember this and the fork can do this but it generates a new temp file etc... i think it's too little to gain for a massive effort and trouble, so no.)

Nonetheless, as the .bib contains attachment directory, so possibly, a trigger might point at that?

[chrisgrieser]

could you share one or two example entries that have such a link to an attachment?

[kzssc]

sure, here! https://transfer.archivete.am/SaIWC/2%20Lottery.bib

[daaaaaaaaaniel]

It's not working for me. I set my PDF folder to the location where Zotero stores PDF ~/Zotero/storage/ but alas. I get the disappointed sound when I try to open the file in Zotero. The zotero://select/items/ version succeeds by holding shift, but when I add the extra modifiers to open the PDF, nothing.

Additionally, Zotero allows for multiple PDFs to be attached to the same bibliographic entry. For instance, sometimes I'll have separate PDFs for each chapter under the same book entry. So it would be great if there was a way of offering something like a "menu" where I could choose which attachment I wanted to open from the particular bibliographic entry that I've already called up. Like, if instead of just choosing the first one on the list after the user holds the right modifiers and hits return, it could display a menu with a list of possible attachments to open in cases where there are more than one available.

[chrisgrieser]

@daaaaaaaaaniel The current implementation is based on how the entries from kzssc look like. Likely, your entries are formatted differently.

Could you share an example of how your entries look like?