What happens with group libraries now that syncing is enabled?

[tonyhu-x]

Haven't tried it, but since I'm in the process of creating a group library, I just thought of this. It's mentioned in the docs that the Zotero native citation key field syncs. So, if two or more people both have this plugin installed locally, with different citekey generation formulas, and they both edit an item that causes a change in the cite key, will one of them just overwrite the other?

Seems related to the discussion in #3430, but I'm not sure if anything was said about this.

[retorquere]

Haven't tried it, but since I'm in the process of creating a group library, I just thought of this. It's mentioned in the docs that the Zotero native citation key field syncs. So, if two or more people both have this plugin installed locally, with different citekey generation formulas, and they both edit an item that causes a change in the cite key, will one of them just overwrite the other?

No. What will happen is that Zotero will detect an edit conflict during merge, and the user will be asked to choose.

Mind that by default, editing an item no longer causes an existing key to change. You can turn that on, and it used to be the default, but now that citation keys are real fields, that doesn't work really well anymore, so by default that is off now.

Seems related to the discussion in #3430, but I'm not sure if anything was said about this.

That discussion is about read-only groups, I don't yet have citation keys for read-only groups, but a solution is in the works.