BUG: Bibliontology RDF fails on Standalone note

Vladimir Alexiev · September 28, 2022

The Bibliontology RDF export of a collection fails with this error:

[JavaScript Error: "item.creators is undefined" {file: "chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/translation/translate_firefox.js line 425 > eval" line: 1097}]

The only item without Creator is a Standlone note (which is just text and has no metadata).

The Zotero RDF exporter doesn't have this bug

dstillman · September 28, 2022

A bunch of export formats just don't really make sense on standalone notes, and the translators haven't been written to handle them — e.g., you'd get the same error with TEI. But throwing an error on a collection obviously isn't ideal, so we'll try to update the translators that are doing this to just skip the standalone notes. Thanks for reporting.

For now, you can just Select All in the middle pane, deselect the note, and export from there.

dstillman · September 30, 2022

This should be fixed now.