can't edit citations properly anymore - openoffice

spacediver

not sure what's just happened. When I click in a citation field in openoffice, and click on the edit citation button, it doesn't show the proper citation in the window - instead it shows whatever list of references was last active.

This means I have to manually navigate in the citation window to the proper reference so I can edit it.

I'm using latest builds of everything, afaik.

spacediver

hmm seems to work perfectly now after a reboot. Perhaps it was my imagination. It wouldn't show the reference when I clicked show editor, but now it does. Will keep an eye out for this in case it crops up again.

spacediver

ok definitely not my imagination. Seems to happen randomly (though there may be some rhyme and reason to this bug, assuming it is a bug). The issue is that when I click on show editor, the white field, in which you can see and edit the citations, does not always appear. I can sometimes get around this by navigating to the proper reference in the title window of the add/edit citation window, and then clicking show editor. Or sometimes I can just re-add the reference and then edit it.

spacediver

k i think i may have found a workaround. My references are organized into many different subcollections. If I navigate to the root directory in the left hand pane of the citation window, so it's on "my library", then it seems to pick up the reference without issue.