Cannot import .bib
Hi,
When I try to import an article bib file from aes.org (try http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=18616), all I get is a pop-up saying 'importing...'. The pop up stays there indefinitely and nothing shows up in zotero.
In the zotero connector preferences, import bibtex into zotero is enabled, but the list of enabled hostnames is empty.
I'm using chrome and zotero 5.0.20.
Best regards,
Paul
When I try to import an article bib file from aes.org (try http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=18616), all I get is a pop-up saying 'importing...'. The pop up stays there indefinitely and nothing shows up in zotero.
In the zotero connector preferences, import bibtex into zotero is enabled, but the list of enabled hostnames is empty.
I'm using chrome and zotero 5.0.20.
Best regards,
Paul
You may need to look at debug output to figure out what's getting hung up for you.
But, more basically: do other sites work with the connector? Does the BibTeX import if you load it into Zotero Standalone manually?
https://www.zotero.org/support/debug_output#zotero_connectors_firefox_chrome_and_safari
Paul
- I usually copy the bib file contents to the clipboard and then import from clipboard in zotero. That works.
- When I import a bibfile through file->import... the item is imported but in a newly created collection. Is that normal?
Paul
Typically I have either 'my library' selected or a subcollection (e.g. 'audio' in the case of aes papers)
I seldom look in the unfiled or duplicate collections.
Paul
Also, while we'll fix this, note that you can just click the Save to Zotero button on that page — there shouldn't be any need to use the BibTeX link, or certainly to copy/save BibTeX. What happens when you just click the button?
The zotero button works fine, but the bibtex import feature is more useful on a page like this: http://www.aes.org/e-lib/online/search.cfm?type=elib&title=&oa=yes
Paul
Not sure what "new feature" you're referring to — there's nothing particularly new here.
New feature because (quote from the blog): "Clicking on a BibTeX or RIS file that is served correctly by the website will prompt to import its data into Zotero. If you choose ‘Cancel’, you can download the file normally.
Note that this feature requires Zotero 5.0."
I didn't get the prompt to upgrade until very recently.
I was able to reproduce this. It looks like it happens in the library root or the special views, but not in a collection or subcollection — that's why I was asking exactly what you had selected when seeing this. There'll be a new 5.0 Beta version with a fix in a few minutes, and the fix will be included in 5.0.22 in a few days.
You generally don't want to use this feature when there's a save button, though. On this page, you'll get much better metadata, as well as a PDF and snapshot, if you use the save button. (Granted, Zotero is saving via embedded metadata on this site, and there's no particular reason that should be better than the BibTeX, but it is here. On a site with an actual translator, you'll almost certainly get better metadata from the save button.) For that search result page, it's true that this feature is helpful at the moment, because there's no translator for this site and there's not currently a great way for a site to offer embedded metadata for search results, but we're hoping to offer better options for sites to use.
Thanks very much for the support!
Paul
Testing from bibliotek.dk can import if I am in a collection, but not just to my library.
I need to think in a new way if I can't use my library as the incoming collection anylonger, but I guess this is a bug in me.
From Worldcat.org D1058623797 (not in a collection)
From Worldcat.org D1021357189 (in a collection)