When items are merged, itemIDs should be written to extra:EdTechHub.ItemAlsoKnownAs

[bjohas]

When items are merged, itemIDs should be saved to extra:ETHItemAlsoKnownAs.

In other words, when items are merged, the same process should take places as when "saving item IDs" from the right-click menu (including checking for old IDs, as per #26).

(Note: Issue #27 should be resolved first.)

[bjohas]

Adding to this:

The plugin already merges the archiveLocation/extra:ETHItemAlsoKnownAs fields when items are merged. However, this relies on the items having a populated archiveLocation/extra:ETHItemAlsoKnownAs field.

This issue adds the feature that, when items are merged, empty archiveLocation/extra:ETHItemAlsoKnownAs should be populated with the itemsIDs (as if the 'save itemid action was run manually).

[bjohas]

Which branch is this in?

[retorquere]

Not yet on a branch -- this should have been in progress

[edtechbot]

🤖 this is your friendly neighborhood build bot announcing test build 0.0.23.226 ("fixes #34")

Install in Zotero by downloading test build 0.0.23.226, opening the Zotero "Tools" menu, selecting "Add-ons", open the gear menu in the top right, and select "Install Add-on From File...".

[bjohas]

This works! Thanks!

However, when I use, 'save item id', a spurious number appears in the item id (which I cannot see in the item metadata). May not be relevant.

[retorquere]

Oh that's the library id. The part before the colon right? That's easy to remove.

[bjohas]

No - on 'save item id', I get this:

EdTechHub.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 59841;2259720:JLD5AI8V

So the lib is there as expected, but the 59841 is spurious.

There's another problem, which surfaces on 'merge'. If I do 'save item id' first, then I get the merged record as follows:

EdTechHub.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 59841;2259720:JLD5AI8V;59842;2259720:X922H87F

This is correct, bar the spurious numbers.

However, if I do not do 'save item id' first, I get

EdTechHub.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 59841;59842

i.e., I only get the spurious numbers, when the expected result is

EdTechHub.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2259720:JLD5AI8V;2259720:X922H87F

[bjohas]

Updated comment above.

Btw. the spurious numbers are consecutive: In another merge op, I got 59846;59847. So it might be some kinda of operation sequence number...?

[edtechbot]

🤖 this is your friendly neighborhood build bot announcing test build 0.0.23.229 ("key, not itemID")

Install in Zotero by downloading test build 0.0.23.229, opening the Zotero "Tools" menu, selecting "Add-ons", open the gear menu in the top right, and select "Install Add-on From File...".

[retorquere]

Ah -- you asked for the itemID, those are numeric. 229 has the item key.

[bjohas]

AHH - apologies!

I now get the item key, great! Could you restore the group_id? I.e., at the moment I get

EdTechHub.ItemAlsoKnownAs: WIQJGYSQ;2T5XC83G

but I want this (with the group_id):

EdTechHub.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2259720:JLD5AI8V;2259720:X922H87F

Then please release! Many thanks!

[edtechbot]

🤖 this is your friendly neighborhood build bot announcing test build 0.0.23.232 ("lib key + item key")

Install in Zotero by downloading test build 0.0.23.232, opening the Zotero "Tools" menu, selecting "Add-ons", open the gear menu in the top right, and select "Install Add-on From File...".

[retorquere]

I'd prefer it if you could confirm before I merge it into master

[bjohas]

Sure - let me confirm!

[bjohas]

On 0.0.23.232, I now do not get an entry in extra at all (and no item history).

[bjohas]

There's also an error. With this version, when I use 'save item id', I get 'uri undefined'.

[edtechbot]

🤖 this is your friendly neighborhood build bot announcing test build 0.0.23.233 ("something must have changed in the handling of merge")

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[bjohas]

thank you - now works as advertised!! Many thanks - this is very much appreciated!

Happy for the latest changes to be released!!