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alangford

An error is being produced when Zotero (standalone, Mac 10.13.4) integrates with an .odt document (using Libreoffice) and generates formatted citations.

I'm also getting some errors and can't produce a bibliography.

Any ideas?

adamsmith

Could you say more about the error? What happens? What's the error message?

adomasven

Could you submit a Report ID?

alangford

Well, I've got myself to a whole different problem. I installed the latest version of LibreOffice, thinking that perhaps that was the problem. But now there doesn't seem to be a Zotero extension that I can install for LibreOffice. https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/zotero-libreoffice-integration

That is a more fundamental problem, it seems.

dstillman

The LibreOffice extension is included with Zotero — you don't get it from a website. It should be installed automatically, or you can reinstall it from the Cite pane of the Zotero preferences.

alangford

Right. I have the Zotero LibreOffice Integration in Zotero Standalone.

But I used to have zotero buttons in LibreOffice that made it easy to add bibliography, refresh, and that kind of stuff. That is gone in the new version of LibreOffice (5.4.5.1).

dstillman

But I used to have zotero buttons in LibreOffice

That's what I'm referring to.

https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_troubleshooting#zotero_toolbar_doesn_t_appear

alangford

Ok! Great. Now I have buttons again. Thanks.

Now to the problems:

When I click the Add/Edit Bibliography button, it says this:
"You must insert a citation before performing this operation."

I already have a very large document with tons of citations, so I'm not sure what this means.

alangford

adamsmith requested a report ID before. Here it is: 572861033.

It was a very big document, with a great many citations, and "reproducing" the error would take hours, so I can't offer steps to repeat.

fbennett

A note of what the error messages looked like might be useful information, even if nothing can be done for this case.

alangford

Here's what they looked like (two screen shots visible through Google drive link):

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CCO2qr7DLF-iD-EUdytJoQnIbflUHoy0
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16787DddMv4dy_sY4-yd4JpnrnaeX5XIP/view?usp=sharing

adomasven

It is still not clear what the issue with the document is. Could you describe the process to how you got here, when the errors begun, what is your current issue, which error messages are you seeing, when doing what, etc? Does the plugin work well in a new document?