Zotero 5.0 Bug: citation not working (several issues)
Report ID: 1762169239
Cite using drag and drop:
When I try to cite using drag-and-drop, nothing appears in my editor. No visual feedback in Zotero either.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Zotero
2. Select an element from My Library
3. Drag the selected element to a text editor (Tested with Gedit and Atom)
Cite using Copy Citation-button:
The Edit>Copy Citation button doesn't copy the citation of the selected element.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Zotero
2. Select an element from My Library
3. Press Edit > Copy Citation
4. Paste in text editor (Tested with Gedit and Atom)
Loosing selected citation style:
When choosing a citation style under Preferences > Cite, the style gets selected. After a restart of Zotero, the style is deselected again.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Start Zotero
2. Open Preferences > Cite
3. Choose a style (I tested IEEE)
4. Close the Preference menu using the close button
5. Restart Zotero
6. Open Preferences > Cite
All tested with Zotero 5.0-beta.202+ddc9989 on Fedora 25 with Gnome 3.22.2
Thx for your help!
Cite using drag and drop:
When I try to cite using drag-and-drop, nothing appears in my editor. No visual feedback in Zotero either.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Zotero
2. Select an element from My Library
3. Drag the selected element to a text editor (Tested with Gedit and Atom)
Cite using Copy Citation-button:
The Edit>Copy Citation button doesn't copy the citation of the selected element.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Zotero
2. Select an element from My Library
3. Press Edit > Copy Citation
4. Paste in text editor (Tested with Gedit and Atom)
Loosing selected citation style:
When choosing a citation style under Preferences > Cite, the style gets selected. After a restart of Zotero, the style is deselected again.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Start Zotero
2. Open Preferences > Cite
3. Choose a style (I tested IEEE)
4. Close the Preference menu using the close button
5. Restart Zotero
6. Open Preferences > Cite
All tested with Zotero 5.0-beta.202+ddc9989 on Fedora 25 with Gnome 3.22.2
Thx for your help!
You select the default style for quick copy under "Export" ==> Quick Copy in the preferences.
This should make 1 and 2 work. As a minimum, we'd need to know which style you actually have selected there.
3. isn't a bug. You're not supposed to be able to "select" any style there other than to uninstall it.
Sry for posting this as a bug report.
I think I've figured out why it didn't work the first time:
I chose BibTeX as output format. Whenever this format is set as default output nothing gets copied to the system clipboard.
If I choose another output format (tested with AAA, Cell, IEEE) it works just fine.
I also restarted Zotero after switching the format just to be sure, but it didn't help.
Any ideas?
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/issues/1155
(BibTeX is a little complicated in that it actually supports citation keys, but it's still an export format as far as Zotero is concerned — there's currently no separate way to generate a citation key.)
Since BBT isn't compatible with the new 5.0-Version, this feature would be greatly appreciated :)