Upgrade StorageNew line in "extra" field induces error during bibliography generation
I got this inscrutable error when generating a bibliography from multiple items: "An error occurred generating your bibliography. Please try again." The under-the-hood error output is
> [JavaScript Error: "TypeError: zoteroField[1] is undefined" {file: "chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/cite.js" line: 416}]
and my error ID is 742883189.
After trying again, restarting, etc., I finally succumbed to a binary search, first to narrow down on the problem items, and then to the problem fields in the item. I determined that adding a newline in the "Extra" field causes the bibliography generation to throw an error. The newline is entered using the "return" keyboard button.
MacOS 10.15.2, Zotero 5.0.85.
I now have many items that have newlines in the "extra" field, and it would be a big pain to change them all. (Especially since I think Zotero still does not have a feature for batch changes?) How do I get around this error? Thank you.
> [JavaScript Error: "TypeError: zoteroField[1] is undefined" {file: "chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/cite.js" line: 416}]
and my error ID is 742883189.
After trying again, restarting, etc., I finally succumbed to a binary search, first to narrow down on the problem items, and then to the problem fields in the item. I determined that adding a newline in the "Extra" field causes the bibliography generation to throw an error. The newline is entered using the "return" keyboard button.
MacOS 10.15.2, Zotero 5.0.85.
I now have many items that have newlines in the "extra" field, and it would be a big pain to change them all. (Especially since I think Zotero still does not have a feature for batch changes?) How do I get around this error? Thank you.
I use the Zotero Scholar Citations plugin which puts citation data in the "extra" field. That plugin usually populates the field with something like "ZSCC: 1" (i.e., letter-then-colon at the start of a line). However, if I the plugin was getting blocked by Google, which happens from time to time, and I wanted to record a citation number by hand, I would start a new line and prepend it with a J, e.g.,
ZSCC: 1
J: 2
Does your answer mean this will not be fixed until the next version of Zotero?