Upgrade StorageReference list immediately flattened and not conforming to chosen style
Hi all,
In recent months, I am encountering the following problem when using Zotero and libreoffice integration on Debian 11:
I am used to the bibliography being inserted as a dynamic field that can be automatically updated by clicking the "refresh" button in the Zotero panel. At some point this feature stopped working without any apparent reasons (unfortunately I didn’t notice when exactly, but it hasn’t been working for me across several of the most recent versions (at least 6.0.26 and 6.0.27). Now, when I insert a bibliography, it just inserts it as plain text, with no updates. I have checked and unchecked "Automatically update citations" in the settings within the plugin repeatedly, but this has no effect on my bibliography.
Now this alone wouldn’t be a severe issue for me, as I can simply generate a new, updated reference list by deleting and reinserting it.
However, in recent months I have had a second problem, which is that the references I insert in liberoffice do not conform to the specifications of the selected style.
Has anyone encountered similar problems and might know a workaround?
In recent months, I am encountering the following problem when using Zotero and libreoffice integration on Debian 11:
I am used to the bibliography being inserted as a dynamic field that can be automatically updated by clicking the "refresh" button in the Zotero panel. At some point this feature stopped working without any apparent reasons (unfortunately I didn’t notice when exactly, but it hasn’t been working for me across several of the most recent versions (at least 6.0.26 and 6.0.27). Now, when I insert a bibliography, it just inserts it as plain text, with no updates. I have checked and unchecked "Automatically update citations" in the settings within the plugin repeatedly, but this has no effect on my bibliography.
Now this alone wouldn’t be a severe issue for me, as I can simply generate a new, updated reference list by deleting and reinserting it.
However, in recent months I have had a second problem, which is that the references I insert in liberoffice do not conform to the specifications of the selected style.
Has anyone encountered similar problems and might know a workaround?
For the wrong style -- what sorts of issues are you seeing? It's certainly not impossible (though unusual) for two relatively rarely used styles to be outdated
Yes citations remain active (as fields with grey background that can be successfully updated if something about the entries in zotero is changed). The flattening only seems to affect the bibliography. The file is definitely an .odt, and has citations saved with the appropriate setting (ReferenceMarks).
Regarding the wrong style, I think I was mistaken about the second one, it seems to be correct after all. I think my issue was that I mistook a style preview from another style for it…in which case there would have been a discrepancy between the style preview in Zotero and the style as it finally appears when inserted in the document. That was my bad, sorry about that.
With the other style, my main problem was that it was refusing to put a comma between author and year in the short citation where there should be one in the style. The weird thing about it was that it suddenly started doing this about 3 months ago (and was working fine before that)…no real idea why, but I think my memory of the problem was slightly faulty.
Anyway that part isn’t as pressing to me now, as the other style seems to work, but if there are any thoughts on what could be the issue they would of course be interesting. I assume as it’s just the one style after all, a faulty style of some sort may be the best explanation (though I didn’t really do anything to it to cause this issue, and couldn’t remedy it despite reinstalling it repeatedly).