Upgrade Storage[BUG] can't select new notes to edit
Using b6 on Linux (64-bit xubuntu), a new issue: if I create a new note, I cannot select it to edit it. I can, however, select an already existing note.
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Personal library or group library?
Library or collection?
Report ID?
Does this persist after switching collections or restarting Firefox?
That aside, the answer to your last question is "no", so I guess this is less important.
The answers to your other questions:
It made no difference how I created it: contextual menu and "add note" from the pane yielded the same result.
Personal.
Library (a note attached to a new item).
When I create a note by right-clicking on the item in the middle pane, sometimes the note is created but not opened up in TinyMCE. This happens quite often but sporadically and I can't figure out any pattern to it. However I've never had any problem selecting the note item - the new "untitled note" is sitting there and a left click opens it up.
I can create notes but no way to edit them. I can delete them, though. I can't edit existing notesneither, and it makes no difference creating the note on the central panel with the contextual menu, or by going to the notes tab and adding a note.
Report ID: 1281859644
(The report has many "Sync already running" warnings, but also the error related to editing notes)
Looking forward for a fix... I use notes a lot and not being able to edit them leaves me almost without a properly Zotero to me.
In all cases restarting zotero fixes the problem, for a while.
One difference from my previous report, I'm now running 64-bit ubuntu. Doesn't seem like that could be the problem though.
That could be unrelated to the problem in this thread, which seems to be a UI issue. However it coincides with when I started to see the UI problem.
I'm not sure how to debug this, any suggestions would be welcome.
alexu: If you think they were ever synced to the server, we can look in the logs. E-mail support@ with specifics if you want.
- right click on an item, new note
- edit the note
- item "tree" is expanded, showing note
- right click on the new note, duplicate item
- something weird happens
Would be interesting to know if that is reproducible. I'll run through it tonight more thoroughly.
A few unlikely factors: I have the pref set so double-clicking does NOT open items, but opens and closes the tree view. The notes I was taking included non-western (Japanese) text. I've seen some issues with recent versions of the YASS plugin but had that disabled.
Dan, thanks for the offer but I'm pretty sure this never synced. On further investigation I lost very little, just one reading I'll have to go back over.
- right click on an item, add note
- item "tree" is expanded, showing note, cursor is in note editor
- enter some text in the note
- right click on the new note, duplicate item
* note does not appear, some existing sibling notes disappear, note editor is displayed but blank, selecting item does not display "info" pane, you see only the blank editor
Restart firefox and everything is back to normal. The note that you selected to duplicate has been duplicated.
In debug output I see this suspicious message:
zotero(3): Item already exists outside of collection in Zotero.ItemTreeView.toggleOpenRow()Can anybody reproduce?
I wasn't able to find a pref or changing the effect of a double-click. Where is that one?
(EDIT: found the pref in about:config and turned it false. Duplicating notes still works normally, no sign of trouble on the atom netbook.)
The error in question can still occur when dragging child items between different parent items. We'll see if we can clear those up.
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/9562/bug-in-adding-child-note/
Closing this thread, since much of the above discussion is about an error that was fixed.