Hi

I Have :
Mac os x 10.6
Firefox 3.6
Office 2008
Zotero 2.0rc5
PythonExt 2.6.2
Zotero MacWord Integration 3.0a8

When I "Add Citation" in Zotero menu of Word, There is an Error Window:
"Word could not communicate with Zotero. Please ensure that Firefox is open and try again.

There the same thing if I try to open Firefox again.

THIS APPENDS ONLY on network login . With a locol login it works fine.

I saw that the problem is that there is an error because the file ~/.zoteroIntegrationPipe doesn't exist.
With a local login, this file is created when I run Firefox. It isn't created with a network login.

(the home has good rights to write)

In the log debug of zotero there is this line:
"could not initialize zotero integration pipe"

Could you help me ?
Thanks

Hello guy's,

I had the same problems with network account

I was able to fix the problem by changing in zotero plugin's, chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/integration.js at line 38 :

this.init = function() {
if(!Zotero.isWin) {
// create a new file representing the pipe
//_fifoFile = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/directory_service;1"].
// getService(Components.interfaces.nsIProperties).
// get("ProfD", Components.interfaces.nsIFile);
//_fifoFile.append(".zoteroIntegrationPipe");

_fifoFile = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"]
.createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);

_fifoFile.initWithPath("/tmp/.zoteroIntegrationPipe");


I put the .zoteroIntegrationPipe in /tmp (/tmp is not writeable for basic user, so I did chmod u+w /tmp before).


And in zotero mac word integration/install/install.applescript I fix the code where it link to .zoteroIntegrationPipe with fixing the path to /tmp/.zoteroIntegrationPipe



repeat with i from 1 to length of W2008_SCRIPT_NAMES
do shell script "osacompile -d -e \"try\" -e \"do shell script \\\"ls /tmp/.zoteroIntegrationPipe && echo 'MacWord2008 " & (item i of W2008_SCRIPT_COMMANDS) & "' > /tmp/.zoteroIntegrationPipe\\\"\" -e \"on error\" -e \"display alert \\\"Word could not communicate with Zotero. Please ensure that Firefox is open and try again.\\\" as critical\" -e \"end try\" -o " & posixPathToScripts & "'" & (item i of W2008_SCRIPT_NAMES) & "'"
end repeat


So the /tmp in Mac plateform is not a good place to put this file, maybe /Users/Shared/.

Tell me if it works for you.

@+
Edo...

I'm having a similar issue with a remote home directory and the open office integration plugin under OSX 10.5.8. I can't seem to find the files you guys are modifying to get this to work...where are they?

edit: I've found the code now...but what does the "ProfD" variable refer to that you are replacing "Home" with?

Is there something special you have to do to recreate the .jar file other than just compressing it as a .zip and renaming it?

I don't think you should have to do anything else, but I couldn't get my .jar to rezip correctly (on a different platform, for a different reason), so I opened it using a ZIP browser (the built-in Ubuntu Linux one) and edited the file that way. I don't recall if OS X lets you browse a compressed ZIP, but Windows does. If you have a Windows machine handy, you could rename the .jar file to .zip, browse for the file, edit it, and save. Then just rename back to .jar and copy to the Mac.

does anyone know where to change the path for the OpenOffice integration plugin? I can't find it :{

awesome! it's working now, thanks!

I have tried.
It works
Thanks