A Chickenfoot script for calculating the primary and secondary Zotero items (which draws upon the code in overlay.js->onLoad():
// based on https://www.zotero.org/trac/browser/extension/tags/1.0.7/chrome/content/zotero/overlay.js#L153 var Zotero = chromeWindow.Zotero; var itemTypes = Zotero.ItemTypes.getPrimaryTypes(); for(var i = 0; i<itemTypes.length; i++) { output (itemTypes[i]['name'] + ":" + itemTypes[i]['id']); } var itemTypes = Zotero.ItemTypes.getSecondaryTypes(); for(var i = 0; i<itemTypes.length; i++) { output (itemTypes[i]['name'] + ":" + itemTypes[i]['id']); }
The output of the script is (for Zotero 1.0.7):
book:2 bookSection:3 document:34 journalArticle:4 magazineArticle:5 newspaperArticle:6 artwork:12 audioRecording:26 bill:16 blogPost:23 case:17 computerProgram:32 conferencePaper:33 dictionaryEntry:36 email:21 encyclopediaArticle:35 film:11 forumPost:25 hearing:18 instantMessage:24 interview:10 letter:8 manuscript:9 map:22 patent:19 podcast:31 presentation:27 radioBroadcast:30 report:15 statute:20 thesis:7 tvBroadcast:29 videoRecording:28
When you hit "New Item" button in Zotero, you are given the option of creating a new item of one of a given type:
Furthermore, you can use Zotero.ItemTypes to map between item types and IDs:
Zotero.ItemTypes.getID('book'); yields 2
and
Zotero.ItemTypes.getName(2); returns book
yee | 11-Dec-08 at 2:52 pm | Permalink
Dan Stillman sent me the following clarification: "You can also just get all item types with Zotero.ItemTypes.getTypes(), which returns an array of objects with 'id' and 'name' properties. The concept of primary and secondary might very well go away, since the menu might be changed to just show the most recently used types."
Thanks, Dan!