Add possibility to export only entries with specific Tags

[q-wertz]

Debug log ID

W33PEQL5-euc/6.7.165-6

What happened?

As far as I see, currently it is only possible to export (using Better BibLaTeX or Better BibTex) the whole library.

As my library is quite large it would be nice for writing e.g. papers to only export entries with specific Tags and/or from specific Collections. So far I was not able to find this functionality.

Kind of related to #1826 and the solution suggested in #1826 (comment)

EDIT: I found out that I can select the Tag, then mark entries and export them with right click. But as far as I understand I cannot keep the file updated with new entries that are added to the Tag.

[retorquere]

You can just select your tag, then select all shown items, and export.

[retorquere]

For collections, just right click the collection and export. Maybe I'm not understanding your question, but these things are standard Zotero functionality.

[retorquere]

I found out that I can select the Tag, then mark entries and export them with right click. But as far as I understand I cannot keep the file updated with new entries that are added to the Tag.

That is true. Collections can be set up for auto-export though.

[retorquere]

Unfortunately the way zotero works it's not possible to know that the items were exported because they were selected through a tag. Zotero exposes the fact that a collection or a library was exported, which is why I can set up auto-exports for them.

[q-wertz]

Ok. Thanks for the information about the collections.

I thought it might be possible to have a extra setting in the export functionality of BetterBibtex to only export and keep updated certain Tags.

[retorquere]

That's technically possible, but I'd have to re-implement the export GUI bits. I'd rather have that Zotero provides hints on what they're exporting so that I can hook auto-export into that, as I do for libraries/collections.

[retorquere]

I've tested a bit, and I can't reliably detect whether an item was exported because the user selected a tag or not. When Zotero adds hints in the export, I can act on this, but without this, I can't really take this on.

[q-wertz]

Ok, thanks for looking into it