WinXP, OO integration - error communicating with Zotero

scottiedawg

(I am using WinXP, Open Office 3.1.1, Firefox 3.5.3 with Zotero 2.0b7 and Zotero OpenOffice Integration 3.0a1.)

I had been successfully working on a document a few weeks back and in the meantime had upgraded to the latest versions of the above... yesterday i came back to the document and when i tried to generate a bibliography (or anything else e.g. enter a citation) I recieved an error:

An error occurred communicating with Zotero:
java.lang.Exception: Invalid code prefix
at org.zotero.integration.ooo.ReferenceMark.getCode(ReferenceMark.java.248)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor8.invoke(Unknown Source)
etc etc

Tried various combinations of uninstall/reinstall etc but still getting nowhere. I did the 'remove all field codes' from the zotero OO toolbar, and then it let me begin adding the citations back in, but after a few of these it threw up an error again.

Report ID: 1862870420 (in case it helps)

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott

kevinc

I had the same problem, but I fixed it by

1. Restart Openoffice with the troubled file
2. Delete the Table of Contents
3. Try to add a zotero reference, at which point zotero will upgrade your document.
4. Now regenerate the Table of Contents.

Anyway, that worked for me and I hope it works for you.

j4kub

This solution did not work for me. Still the same error.

scottiedawg

thanks guys - let me just point everyone in the direction of another thread dealing with this:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/8751/error-updating-document-openoffice-integration-30a1-zotero-20b7-mac-os-105/#Item_9