windingwind/zotero-plugin-template

How to access Zotero Items in a hierarchical manner?

ShreyJ1729 opened this issue · 1 comments

ShreyJ1729 commented

I'm building a private cloud for my zotero, and was wondering how to access the files in a hierarchical way?
E.x. looking at the following image, I'd like to have some sort of indication that the attachment "reddit post snapshot" is a child of the item "an incredible workflow".

To my knowledge Zotero.Items currently just gives a flattened list of items.

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windingwind commented
  1. First get the parent item (an incredible...). Generally, we use const item = Zotero.Items.get(id)
  2. Then use const attachments = item.getAttachments(). attachments is an array of ids of the attachment items ([ID_OF_REDDIT_SNAPSHOT,]).
  3. Get the snapshot item by id. const snapShotItem = Zotero.Items.get(attachments)[0]. If there are multiple attachments, you may want to filter by attachment type.