Abstract is missing in zontero

marc01

I just installed zontero on my surface pro 4 tablet. I like the software very much but one thing that I am missing is the ability to view the abstract of a paper in zontero. For all my papers that field is empty. I have previous installed paper 3 on my tablet. There the abstract is imported directly and can be viewed inside the software. However, paper 3 does not work on a tablet because you can't launch it inside word 2016 with short keys. I don't think short keys works with an on screen keyboard.

noksagt

Do you think this is a display issue or an import issue? If you add an abstract manually, does it show up? If that works, which sites are you importing from?

marc01

I think its an import issue with zontero. If I for example load this article in to paper I get an abstract

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6828119

If I load the same article in to zontero (with the Firefox add-in) the abstract field is empty. I can however add text manually however I refuse to do that because I can't do that for 50+ articles.

bwiernik

The article at that link imports the Abstract for me when I use the Zotero button. How are you importing the item?

(And, in general, when abstract data is available on a website, Zotero imports it.)

marc01

bwiernik could you please tell me which button you pressed in the firefox zontero plugin? I think there are 4 different once. I tried a couple of them but still unable to import the abstract...

adamsmith

This one: https://www.zotero.org/support/getting_stuff_into_your_library#web_translators that's always the best option when possible.