Need a way to really edit the key

[notuntoward]

Debug log ID

ZYF7YRRV-refs-euc/✓/✓

What happened?

I have a couple feature requests.

1. Add the ability to manually edit the Citation Key. The zotero item "Citation Key" field appears to editable -- I can type a new key in there and it appears to take effect. But if I close/restart zotero, the edits are gone. I also notice that the edits aren't stored in the online version of zotero. Quite often, zotero connector is unable to find the author, so the generated Bibtex key misses it. There is currently no way to add the author to the key, once I've looked it up manually.

2. I'd like better control over capitalization of title words. I'm currently using the formula auth.capitalize + shortyear + shorttitle(3,3) but this sometimes makes a key that is hard to read e.g. for Morris21InitializationFromData. If I could lower case the first title word I'd get a more readable Morris21initializationFromData.

[retorquere]

Please split out #2 to a new issue. #1 should already work, a debug build will drop here shortly, please install it, edit a key, and send a new log.

[github-actions]

🤖 this is your friendly neighborhood build bot announcing test build 9.0.12.9516 ("logging for #3489")

Install in Zotero by downloading test build 9.0.12.9516, opening the Zotero "Tools" menu, selecting "Plugins", open the gear menu in the top right, and select "Install Plugin From File...".

Please test this build and report back whether it fixes the issue, and if not, what the remaining problem is. In the latter case, please also send a new log.

[notuntoward]

This didn't work. I edited the item key pushed the online sync button, and saw that the online key was the same as before the edit. I sent the log with the number below. Then I restarted zotero again, and my edits were gone.

BDYXRJQ9-refs-apse/✓/✓

[retorquere]

Can you enable debug logging in the help menu, reproduce the problem, and send a new log?