Accessed field is not working... does not display, lost field data in our group libraries
We enter data in the accessed field so we can export citations/references with the "Last accessed on " field displaying. As we enter references, we enter usually the current date in that field under the URL field. Lately, we can fill it out, have tried different values, including "today" without quotes, or 2017 Jun 24 etc. to no avail. It looks like former entries where the field was filled out have also lost data, empty and/or do not report out in the standard item view. Please let us know if it gets fixed. Our group libraries include but are not limited to: ADPREFS, PDSREFS, YSPREFS.
What exactly happens when you try to enter a date into this field? Are you trying to enter these on the Zotero website or the Zotero client program? If the latter, What operating system and version of Zotero are you using? Can you submit a Debug Report ID for an attempt to change the Accessed Date that fails?
https://www.zotero.org/support/debug_output
First, can you verify that you can edit any other field? My first guess would be that you might not have editing access to the libraries.
Step by step:
1. open record / entry to edit (e.g. journal article)
2. go to accessed field; enter "today" or "2017 Jun 09" or "01/01/2017"
3. click on save button
4. look at record display result - notice "accessed" is missing in the output/report/item-info-display
5. click on edit again for the item
6. notice the "accessed" field is empty
and this is true for items entered before today's date, which previously held the "accessed" data/text/entries upon save.
So, something changed and we're not sure what or why or how to get it back to functioning. Glad yours is working just fine.
NOTE: I have been able in this process to edit a record field such as adding "extra" info to the following record which was saved and displays correctly: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1463427/adprefs/items/itemKey/2W35BM4S so I don't think its a permissions conflict / matter.
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
2014-03-28
Other formats are getting rejected (though, for me, they are reverting to their previous state, not deleting the data entirely).
In the offline Zotero client program, you can input using other formats ("Today", "March 23 2016", "2014/05/23", etc.) and they are parsed so long as you provide a day, a month, and a year. In the online library, only the ISO format is currently accepted.
@fcheslack @dstillman Can the online library be made to allow the various parsing options the client has?
which displays the accessed field with the date after edit/entry of 2017-06-24