Hi!

I have the latest Zotero with Firefox 2.0.0.6 under Linux (Opensuse 10.2) installed. I also installed the OpenOffice extension and i can't seem to make it work. I use OpenOffice 2.3.0 but I also tried 1.0.4 and 2.2 with no luck. I use the Novell Edition with the python stuff installed (e.g. bibus using a python bridge is working fine...)

When I try to insert a citation, I get the following error message:

BASIC runtime Error,
An error occurred
Type: Unknown
Message: python-loader:<type 'exceptions.ImportError'> No module named
pythonloader, traceback follows
no traceback available.

At the same time a Macro window pops up and the following line is highlighted:

oZoteroRPC = createUnoService("com.sun.star.task.ZoteroRPC")

The file edited is "[My Macros & Dialogs].Zotero

Should I try a stock OO version? I would rather stick with the Novell edition. Is anybody able to use the extension with the OO version from Novell?

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers Juergen

Hi, I'd think your best bet would be to try installing the standard package for OOo to see if that makes any difference.

I understand that the Novell version of OOo is modified, so maybe one of the modifications is responsible for the error you're seeing. That's just a guess, and a guess that does not respond to the particular error message you report, but if it were me, I'd try the standard OOo package.

The Zotero extension works just fine with OOo 2.3 on Gentoo Linux, however. This is with a self-compiled version rather than with a stock OOo package.

It looks to me like there there is a typo in the error message. In any case, on my system there is a series of files named "pythonloader" in the openoffice application directory, and none named "pythonIoader". See how there's an "I" rather than an "l" in the error message?

I'm supposing that you just pasted in the error message from a terminal (or maybe ~/.xsession-errors), is that right?

I'm not familiar enough with OOo to know what is looking for and not finding the pythonloader module. But I'm inclined to think that it's an OOo/python rather than a Zotero problem. To test this idea, you could try installing another extension to see if you get the same error. You can find some OOo extensions here: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/taxonomy/term/2

See http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=26418

Did anyone in this thread with this problem fix it or find a workaround?

I have the same problem as dbrunell: on windows xp, zotero rc5. After updating zotero, the plugin was broken, so i updated to the latest. I opted for the automatic install, it told me it was the same version ('0') and I installed anyway. Now I get the 'this property is read only' error.

My Win2K setup mysteriously started working. No more "Read only" error. However, I just updated Zotero on the OpenSUSE 10.2 setup at the office and am having the problem there now. Strange.

ftr, you may want to try updating the plug-in also. You have to download it separately.

Great work dbrunell! It works on my machine now (windows xp sp2, openoffice 2.3, forefox 2.0.0.8).

derxen

May be unrelated to this, but I am no longer able to insert any reference in my OOo, as I get an error:

If Right(sResultText, 1) = "." And LCase(sResultText) <> "ibid." Then

OOo 2.3.0 on Debian, zot 1.0.1

Just updated Zotero and the OO extension and I've encountered a couple of problems.
1/ Mid(fnRemoveString, nTagStart, nEnd - nTagStart + 1, "")
This one was fixable as per the instructions above, but I thought I'd better mention it as its odd that the correct statement is still sitting as a comment a couple of line above the problem statement.

2/ If I try to change the citation style I get a different runtime error message: this object is invalid
This is the line that gets highlighted:
oRange.text.insertTextContent(oRange, oField, true)

I'm, so far, only having this problem with one old document - so might it be a dodgy reference that I need to track down?

Regards, Jon.