Error Message - "The style you have selected does not appear vaild..."
I have been working on a Word document for several months - inserting citations and today I have an error message when inserting a citation or changing the document properties on the Zotero Tab.
The Log number is: D295896341 and the Error code is 1374615892.
I have opened a new document and was able to insert citations and a bibliography.
The Log number is: D295896341 and the Error code is 1374615892.
I have opened a new document and was able to insert citations and a bibliography.
It's my understanding that Zotero should be able to handle such style ID changes, but maybe this is a new bug/regression.
If so, could you update it for the next Zotero release?
@Rintze - what should we do with the links you've provided?
the zotero add-in in Word won't let me even access the document preferences. So is there a way to solve this within the existing document?
The link above is for the old version of the style with its original style ID. Unplugging your internet should prevent Zotero from attempting to update it to the new version, which might circumvent the problem.
Once installed, try changing the citation style in your existing Word document to a different style (such as APA). If that works, you can re-enable internet on your computer, install the new version of the style (from https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:unified-style-sheet-for-linguistics), and switch your Word document to that.
That worked.
Thank you very much.
What is the best strategy going forward? Is the manual revert just to make things work until the update is fixed in Zotero? Or could we just have the filename back the way it was, if that is the problem?
And if this isn't actually fixed officially, then every single person who uses this style will have to manually fix all of their documents, which is unreasonable. Every document using this style was just corrupted by the update, as far as I can tell because of a name change that isn't strictly necessary.
This isn't intended as a complaint about the help updating the style (which I originally requested), but it is a serious usability issue.
I mean, I know there aren't that many of us linguists, but what if this was APA?
I asked a reasonable question above: when/how will this be corrected? Your response was dismissive.
I'm not intending to be impatient. But I don't like being dismissed.
We'll also fix the next version to open the document preferences if a style can't be loaded for any reason (which clearly should happen, since the error message says to choose a different style).
That way we would no longer have this breakage between the time we change style IDs and Zotero releases a new version, and it would likely help other implementations too.