Bug? change of item type causes missing data in biblio creation

Frit

Zotero 1.0.4 bug –

1. create a Zotero entry (or use an existing one)
2. Create Bibliography from Selected Item...
3. copy to clipboard in American Poli Sci format
4. Paste into Word (or whatever)
5. Now change the type of item in Zotero (e.g. from presentation to report)
6 repeat #2, #3, #4
7. I noticed that the name was now missing from the pasted biblio entry.

Corrected if I delete and re-add the name and then re-create the biblio entry.

dstillman

Could you provide a few more details? What's the before-and-after output?

Frit

before (type is presentation):

Dalai Lama. 2008. “a new presentation.” Available at: dalai.org.

After change to report:

a new presentation. 2008. Kathmandu. Available at: dalai.org.

change back to presentation:

a new presentation. 2008. Available at: dalai.org.



I simply created a new presentation item and then changed it to a report. Notice the missing name; all just as I said. Notice now that other parts of the citation also did not revert to the original format for 'presentation.'

dstillman

The "Presenter" creator type doesn't exist in reports, so the creator is being reverted to "Contributor". If you change it back to Author, it'll work.

I actually thought we automatically converted between primary creator types, but, checking the code, we don't. (We do convert between equivalent fields in different item types.)

Fixed in the latest dev build. Thanks.