why to install standalone

hhajar2002
Hi,

what are the advantages of standalone? what are it's applications? Is it better than addon in facilities?
  • adamsmith
    The differences are small and mostly apply when you want to use a browser different than Firefox. There's a comparison table here:
    http://zotero-manual.github.io/zotero-manual/installing-zotero
  • bwiernik
    The major advantage for me is psychological--not having it in my browser means I can stay off the Internet when I am writing.
  • hhajar2002
    thanks for your reply,

    in the mentioned link there is an advantage for addon and is "Allows you to print and customize Zotero reports", what does it mean? how can I use this tool?
  • adamsmith
    Reports are documented here:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/reports
    you can now also print them from Standalone.
    You can only use the online report cleaner tool by Jason with Firefox, but I believe you should be able to use Emiliano's report customizer ( https://github.com/friflaj/zotero-report-customizer ) with both, so this difference is mostly gone.
  • weavermjr
    How do you use Emiliano's customizer? I installed the xpi, but when I open the generator, I don't see any text boxes to check or uncheck the fields. I have OSX Mavericks.
  • adamsmith
    after installing you should have an option "Report Customizer" in the Zotero gears menu.
  • weavermjr
    Haha. I realize now that my explanation made me sound like a fool. I found the "Report Customizer" in the gears menu. The issue I'm having is that within the report box, there is no way for me to select/deselect fields. Here is a screenshot of what I mean:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/78uf54c89vkkxp4/Screenshot%202014-01-20%2009.20.00.png

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/6byebl87sw9i50g/Screenshot%202014-01-20%2009.21.49.png

    I see no way to turn fields on or off.

    Thanks for your help.
  • adamsmith
    uh - so that changed, and I'm not sure for the better - but:
    You can click on the little triangle next to each item type and that will expand a checkbox with fields to enable/disable
  • weavermjr
    So it sounds like there has been a change. Perhaps I should try installing an older version. If you look at the second picture, you'll notice that one of the triangles is expanded, but there are no enable/disable options. When I click a field, it just highlights the field, that's pretty much all it does.
  • adamsmith
    I'd troubleshoot this with Emiliano - open an issue at the github page.
  • weavermjr
    Will do. Thanks.
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