Upgrade Storagefawlty installation/integration Standalone 4.0.11 with LibreOffice 4.1 in Win 7 Home
error message: 1885841437
zotero toolbar not working properly in Libreoffice.
only shows text rather than icons.
the text is not actionable, on clicking nothing happens.
try to reinstall via standalone gives error.
even though libreoffice has been quit.
submitted the above error message
restart computer.
attempt to install toolbar via standalone still fails.
Standalone 4.0.11
LibreOffice 4.1 (UK)
Win 7 Home
zotero toolbar not working properly in Libreoffice.
only shows text rather than icons.
the text is not actionable, on clicking nothing happens.
try to reinstall via standalone gives error.
even though libreoffice has been quit.
submitted the above error message
restart computer.
attempt to install toolbar via standalone still fails.
Standalone 4.0.11
LibreOffice 4.1 (UK)
Win 7 Home
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but still as text, not as icons.
and some peculiar texts about fields being in the wrong format.
the zotero I have is in Portuguese, so I am not surprised the text is in PT, but I have no idea what it means?
I think the document and some old citations where done in 3.x of OpenOffice but since no I have OO4 which does not work with Zotero...
"O seu documento terá de ser permanentemente actualizado de modo a funcionar com o Zotero 2.0b7 ou outra versão mais recente. Recomenda-se que faça uma cópia de segurança antes de continuar. Quer mesmo continuar?"
"O Zotero não pode actualizar este documento, uma vez que foi criado por uma aplicação de processamento de texto diferente, com uma codificação de campos incompatível. De modo a tornar o documento compatível quer com o Word, quer com o OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice/NeoOffice, abra o documento no processor de texto no qual ele foi criado originalmente e altere o tipo de campo nas Preferências de Documentos do Zotero."
Otherwise, the 2nd message would only appear, I believe, if you had created a .doc with Word and used Fields and are trying to use Zotero with that in LibreOffice
I might have done some cut and paste from file I made in OO/Zotero in Lubuntu and/or Win7/MS Word.
the current file format is .odt
btw
what is a "field"?
with the "backwards P" I do not spot anything special.
In the zotero toolbox there is an option "remove field codes".
what it is that for?
"Field" is the format in which Word adds active content to documents - Zotero uses it for citations. The equivalence in LO is "Reference Marks". Both are the default, if you need a document to be compatible between Word and LO you need to use Bookmarks (set under "Set Document Preferences").
Remove Field Codes will remove any connection of the document to Zotero, i.e. you wouldn't be able to create a bibliography anymore, any new citation you insert would be treated like the first one etc.
So I saved the documents as .rtf and again as .odt.
Now I can add references without any of the above "error messages".
btw
is there a way of hiding the "remove field codes" button?
since it has quite serious effects ...
Thanks for all the input!
Now it seems to be working.
In my case the two main fixes were:
1. choose a JRE for Zotero
2. find a way to remove MS Word fields (e.g. save as .rtf, then back to .odt)
Now I just need to figure the formatting of in text references etc, but that is another story ...
Cheers!