Upgrade to v5 lost site-specific export settings
I just upgraded to 5.0.1. from v4. Most things seem to be working, but my site-specific export settings are no longer present.
And there is no obvious dialogue option to recreate them.
FWIW, I use Firefox (v. 54.0.1) under Win 10.
And there is no obvious dialogue option to recreate them.
FWIW, I use Firefox (v. 54.0.1) under Win 10.
We could in theory still support these via the Connectors, though it'd be a little awkward — basically, whenever a tab became active in a browser with the Connector installed, it would ping the Zotero app, and if you then started a drag (either before another page became active or some short timeout occurred), it would use the site-specific format. So most of the time it would do what you wanted, and maybe very occasionally you would be on Wikipedia and switch back to Zotero and try to drag somewhere else and end up with Wikipedia Citation Templates by accident. (But that could've happened in Zotero for Firefox too.)
It's also just not a _change_: this didn't change from Standalone 4.0 to Standalone 5.0. It's a side effect of Zotero deprecating the Firefox version.
The loss of the per-site functionality could perhaps be mitigated by a toggle-switch on Zotero's own tool bar
I have *personally* taught more than 15 people to use this feature.
The number of people in audiences for events where I have described its use is well more than ten times that.
I have personally collaborated with a developer to build a script to export in a Wikidata-compatible format specifically to make use of this feature.
The use of this feature is described and encouraged in documentation I have collaboratively written on Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikispecies.
(For what it's worth, I've actually always been rather proud of this feature, but I would agree with adamsmith's assessment that it's used by very few people, and we never even considered adding it to Standalone before 5.0. While we did try to achieve feature parity between Zotero for Firefox and the connectors on nearly every feature for 5.0, this one was barely on our radar. But the feature was essentially designed for Wikipedia, so I guess it's not surprising that it has some adherents there.)
For the meantime: As far as a I know also Zutilo has some additional functionalities with QuickCopy, but I am not sure if this extension is 5.0 ready.
From https://github.com/willsALMANJ/Zutilo/blob/master/docs/COMMANDS.md :
However it presents too high a barrier to entry for some of the people I work with.
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protocols in my settings. Now, it works nicely again. Thank you very much!My default is to export as "Wikidata QuickStatements", and I have a domain-specific setting for "wikipedia.org" to use "Wikipedia Citation templates". The latter fails, and exports in the default
It's working OK, now.
But yes, I had tried several restarts, and resets of the rules, and even experienced the problem in different 5.0.N versions.
I use Zotero 5.0.34. When I drag/drop a reference in the website mentioned in the site-specific settings, Zotero use the default format (Chicago manual of style...) and not the one specified for my website (RIS).
Many thanks in advance for any good idea to solve my problem.
Sophie
It is always a pleasure to post on this forum and to get answers and solutions.
Many thanks.
Sophie
Site-specific settings work right now.
Many thanks for this correction.
Sophie
With the new version 5.0.35 of the Zotero connector for Firefox:
- site-specific settings don't work anymore
- and the RIS format don't work as default format for rapid copy
It seems that anyone else report this default...
Sophie
Can you provide a Debug ID from Zotero for 1) triggering Quick Copy on a non-Wikipedia page, 2) switching to a Wikipedia page, and 3) triggering Quick Copy again?
I verified my versions :
Zotero 5.0.35.1
Zotero connector : 5.0.35
I began the Debug ID process and stopped it because it is working well now.
I have had trouble yesterday, but no time to report, and have retested today before writing my post.
Really sorry fot that.
Sophie