Hi, I'm far behind you with my attempts at translators but I think, I can at least point you at a working example: https://github.com/Droitslinguistiques/translators/blob/master/BAILII.js for British cases seems to do that nicely. Relevant lines are probably 612 and following, especially l. 650.

Just to make sure that there is no misunderstanding: it's not my code, I just found it :)

Update: I just tried to use that translator you linked to import some cases from Bailii.org, and while the cases did import correctly, they were not linked in "related". So it seems that the "seeAlso" troubles I've been having with my code are also in this code as well.

At this point, I'm wondering if that's a Juris-M issue, or a Zotero one.

I tested a few different Zotero translators who have a seeAlso code, but none of them linked the items correctly.

At this point, I'll try to raise an issue in Zotero's GitHub and hope for an answer there.

Hmmm I can't even get that to load the translator with Jurism. The Zotero translator loads fine, although it doesn't link the items, but the only jurism translator that loads is the web-page with snapshot one.

Edit 1 : The translator runs fine in Scaffold, but from my browser, it doesn't detect a case or run properly.

Edit 2 : I've replicated this problem in both Edge and Chrome. I'll test on another computer and see if the issue might just be my own computer or something else.

I can confirm the same behaviour. Now I doubt that it was done automatically back in October. Although I don't remember doing so, I might well have linked them by hand.

I think, you’re already using the right resources. But Frank is probably not be the right person to ping here. @adamsmith is among those with most experience, pershaps he might know whom to ask? As you remarked that it doesn’t work in Zotero either it’s most probably something around the translator infrastructure or the communication between the translator and Zotero. One place that might be better to ask for attention could be the Zotero-dev mailing list which is developer-oriented: https://groups.google.com/g/zotero-dev?pli=1

Yeah, I had a quick look a couple of days back and this certainly doesn't appear to work as advertised in the documentation. I don't know if it's generally broken or just doesn't work for web translators

It's broken for all translators, both import and web, as far as I can tell, which means @dstillman or someone else from the core dev team would need to look at it.

So, while my knowledge of any of this barely extends beyond a surface level understanding of how CSL works, I did find this :

https://github.com/zotero/zotero/commit/3fc38d750bc0b9efe3273f157019103ba3d52300#diff-c9b8090ac1c78b9c8297c04f22daf965a30d298f44d4cc8e533e37fffb220a5e

In this merge, the code for adding related items from seeAlso was commented out of translate_items. I think. Again, I know nothing.

@dstillman was the ability to relate items through translators removed or changed to something else I haven't found yet?

Hello, me again.

So, since I assumed that the developpers are quite busy, and that fixing adding related through web translators, I attempted to fix this myself.

Thanks to the awesome documentation on tinkering with the Zotero source code, I managed to write something to replace the commented-out code and get related to work on web translators.

Should I submit a pull request directly in Github, or is there some other way to get this fix looked at and considered for the main Zotero build?

What I ended up doing is replacing the commented out _handleRelated function in translate_items with the following :

"_handleRelated": function (item, newItem) {
// add to ID map
if (item.itemID || item.id) {
this._IDMap[item.itemID || item.id] = newItem;
}

// add see alsos
if(item.seeAlso) {
for(related in item.seeAlso) {
if(this._IDMap[related]) {
newItem.addRelatedItem(this._IDMap[related]);
}
}
newItem.save();
}
}

In the test suite I ran, it worked perfectly. Items were sent to Zotero connected like they should be.

However, I don't know if me doing this broke anything else. As I've said over and over, I know nothing about coding or any of this. So I'm not sure how to run the bundled tests and make sure I didn't accidentally break something else...

@fbennett @dstillman This is the part where I could really use a reply and some guidance please. I want to help, but aside from brute forcing solutions through trial and error, I've reached the limit of my knowledge on how any of this works.

Ok now it actually works and related ALL items together. I submitted pull requests to both Zotero and Juris-M