Upgrade Storagebehavior of "generate report" under linux
One request I know several people have made is to be able to generate reports (say, from a search or a collection) that show not only citation info but those all-important notes.
I was hoping to print out a bunch of notes today, and was glad to see when I right-clicked on a collection folder, I got a "generate report" option. However when I invoked it under my primary OS, (k)ubunutu 6.10, nothing seemed to happen. There were no error messages or hangups, just no report.
Out of curiosity I rebooted in windows and tried it there with a different dataset (my real data is under kubuntu). It seemed to work, filling the browser screen with a report and the address bar with an address starting zotero://...
Should this be working under linux? Anything I can do? Thanks!
I was hoping to print out a bunch of notes today, and was glad to see when I right-clicked on a collection folder, I got a "generate report" option. However when I invoked it under my primary OS, (k)ubunutu 6.10, nothing seemed to happen. There were no error messages or hangups, just no report.
Out of curiosity I rebooted in windows and tried it there with a different dataset (my real data is under kubuntu). It seemed to work, filling the browser screen with a report and the address bar with an address starting zotero://...
Should this be working under linux? Anything I can do? Thanks!
bottleman, do you have javascript.options.showInConsole on? Can you check that that's on in about:config and, if it wasn't, let us know if any errors show up in the Error Console when you try to generate the report?
When I try to generate a report, the console reports this error:
Error: column.substring is not a function
Source File: chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/itemTreeView.js
Line: 852
And the relevant part of that source file seems to be:
Zotero.ItemTreeView.prototype.getSortField = function() {
var column = this._treebox.columns.getSortedColumn()
if (!column) {
return false;
}
// zotero.items._________.column
return column.substring(13, column.length-7);
}
I don't know javascript, but are you suggesting there is no value to be returned? Or that some function called column.substring has not been defined yet? It's been a while since I did any programming..
Hope this helps!
I fixed this in the code (column.substring should be column.id.substring). You could patch it yourself, but you can also just select all items in the collection and use the "Generate Report from Selected Items" context menu option, which should work fine.
Thanks for the bug report.