Change location of Zotero Word-Addin?

snjuk

Dear Forum,

is there any possibility to Change the Installation-Folder of the Firefox-plugin of Zotero Standalone?

adamsmith

could you explain a bit more what you're after? The title of your thread and what you're actually asking don't seem to agree with each other, and it'd be helpful to know why you want to change the folder to better help you.

snjuk

Hello Adam!

Sure. The Problem is as followed: Zotero Plugin for word installs itself into C:\Users\erik.radisch\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP.
In our case Zotero is running in Citrix. On the same Server with zotero we installed word 2010. It is working perfectly. But we realized a problem: There is one Citrix-Profile for several servers. The Installation saves the Plugin into our Citrix-Profile. On another Server we use word 2013, which uses the same AppData path as word 2010. That is why we see the same word-addin there. But as word 2013 is installed on another Server, it cannot work there.
I now wondered if there is a way to Change the install Directory of the zotero plugin?
If I could force it to install itself to for example: C:\Users\erik.radisch\AppData\Roaming\Zotero
all my Problems would be solved. :-)

adamsmith

You need that to work automatically or just for one user? For one user/machine, just moving over the Zotero.dot file manually would be easiest.
Modifying the add-on to change the install location is more difficult (and may become all but impossible once Firefox requires extension signing)

snjuk

It has to be done automatically, I am affraid. :-)
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It is for the standallone version of zotero. Firefox shouldn't be a Problem.

adamsmith

I don't think there'd be an alternative to modifying the installers and repacking the .xpi. The relevant code is in the .jsm files here:
https://github.com/zotero/zotero-word-for-windows-integration/tree/master/resource