Feature Request: Choose Vault When Creating a New Login

@invalidptr - Can I ask: are you creating the Login record by clicking the Plus (+) button in 1Password 7 for Mac's main window? Or are you allowing 1Password to capture your login details by way of the browser extension?

@invalidptr - thanks for the confirmation; that's what I was guessing. Of course, you can use the plus button...but it's not the recommended way to create Login items. When you create a Login via the browser extension's capture, you get all the correct data fields for the page in question, not just the URL, username and password. When you use the plus button, you have to enter that manually, and often people don't get the URL for the login page correct because the login page isn't what you expect it might be.

The other substantial advantage to using the browser-capture method is that you do get a choice of vaults. 1Password still defaults to your "vault for saving" selection, but there's a drop-down for choosing a different vault. Hope that helps!

@invalidptr - thanks for the thoughtful reply. I had you pegged based on the quality of feedback in your initial comments as someone who was quite involved in tech, so hearing you're a developer doesn't surprise me. :)

Never been comfortable with knowing definitively whether the Password document gets converted to a Login document?

It's not a 100% certain process, for sure. I'd like to be able to say I think it's somewhere around 90% of the time that a user will get asked to save a login based off the registration page, but we have no actual metrics for that (mostly because we have no idea how many times users out there are attempting to use the browser extension to capture details).

The login URL is often different from the URL used for signup.

Yup -- this is frequently true, and it can indeed be a pain -- one we can't easily overcome. 1Password (as I'm sure you probably suspect) can't "figure out" what the correct login URL should be, if the capture is attempted on a Registration page that's not the same as the usual sign-in page. What I personally do to properly capture a login record in 1Password (especially if I suspect or know for certain this is the case), is this:

1. Register for the site at whatever page they use, using 1Password's password generator to create my password for the site, but do NOT save the record in 1Password (i.e. decline the pop-up prompt to save). As you say, any password generated by 1Password will be saved as a Password item, so I don't worry about losing it.
2. Do any profile twiddling or other housekeeping I need to do in the account I've just created, and then sign out of this new account.
3. Locate the direct login page for the site, if it exists, enter my username or email and then find the saved password item I just created earlier for this site and copy/paste that into the password field of the sign-in page.
4. Click Enter or Submit (or press Enter), and this time, 1Password should offer to save the Login record, which will now be correct without a lot of extraneous registration-only details, and with the correct URL.

Another way to do it, that works if for some reason 1Password still doesn't offer to capture the login automatically upon submission is to do step one above, then find that direct login page URL and copy it. Then locate the Password item in 1Password which contains my just-generated password for the site and click "Convert to Login," pasting the URL into the "website" field in 1Password and manually entering my username/email address. Either way will work, although the latter will have created the Password entry in the "Default for Saving" vault, which would require Moving the item, as you mentioned.

And the final trick up my sleeve for this would be doing step one above, then follow these instructions for saving a login manually in 1Password. This method also allows you to select the vault into which you want the Login item saved.

In your scenario does that mean my Password document gets created in my default vault and then via the browser extension my Login document gets created in a different vault and the Password document then gets deleted?

Password items are NEVER deleted by 1Password, to avoid scenarios where you thought you saved a Login but didn't, or 1Password didn't capture it, and now you don't know what your own password is.

I feel kinda lost when I've had the browser extension generate the password and now I need to tweak it. How is that supposed to work?

Your solution is - unfortunately - about as good as it gets. Websites (well, many of them, anyway) are getting smarter about security and not engaging in either weak security practices or needlessly complicated password policies that offer dubious improvements to user security, but there are unfortunately still too many sites out there that engage in what we sometimes refer to as "security theater," forcing you to use upper and lower-case letters but not Q, B or Z, exactly three symbols unless it's Tuesday (in which case, five), the middle name of a Russian cosmonaut, and any six sequential numbers from the first thousand digits of pi. We're seeing fewer of those, but it probably won't ever go away completely. And although the above is obviously written with tongue planted firmly in cheek, I made it cartoonishly extreme intentionally to illustrate the point that we just can't design the password generator to cover every existing scenario someone at a site can dream up. We do make adjustments to how the password generator works on a pretty frequent basis, but there will always be one-offs that you just have to adjust by hand.

I hope the above was helpful, but feel free to ask any follow-ups or offer any suggestions you might have. Cheers! :)