No sign of zotero in Word or Open Office
Hi everybody,
I just installed the new firefox extensions for Word and Open Office Zotero 2.0b7 plugins on a Mac 10.6.1 machine. I am using Word 08 and Open Office 3.1.1. Unlike the previous versions, I am seeing no sign of the zotero plugin in Apple Script menu (and the relevant User Data directory) and the Open Office Extension Manager. Did I miss something? Was I supposed to also place the extension files (.oxt or .dot or whatever) manually into relevant places (as we used to do with previous versions).
I'd be happy to elaborate if necessary..
Engin
I just installed the new firefox extensions for Word and Open Office Zotero 2.0b7 plugins on a Mac 10.6.1 machine. I am using Word 08 and Open Office 3.1.1. Unlike the previous versions, I am seeing no sign of the zotero plugin in Apple Script menu (and the relevant User Data directory) and the Open Office Extension Manager. Did I miss something? Was I supposed to also place the extension files (.oxt or .dot or whatever) manually into relevant places (as we used to do with previous versions).
I'd be happy to elaborate if necessary..
Engin
http://www.zotero.org/download/integration/Zotero-OpenOffice-Plugin-3.0a1.xpi
is the right one.
The .xpi file is a Mozilla extension installer zip file, and I assume it is supposed to write a plugin to my relevant Office user directory. I have the correct add-on installed in Firefox, but no plugins appear in either Office.
All of the FireFox plugins install just fine, but when I go to the the AppleScript menu in Word, Zotero's nowhere to be found. It's not in the User Data directory either.
I've tried a fresh install of FireFox, reinstalling all plugins, choosing "reinstall Word components" from the Preferences button for the integration plugin, etc. Nada.
Any suggestions?
If this doesn't help, try opening your Firefox profile folder, then navigate to extensions/zoteroMacWordIntegration@zotero.org/install. Open "install.applescript" (should open in Script Editor), and then click "Run" at the top of the window. This may install the scripts for you, or you may see an error message. Either way, let us know how it goes so we can try to improve this process for other users.
Thanks for the fast pace of updates and development of zotero and plugins.
Obviously, I still have the Open Office integration problem. Should I just manually import into Open Office the "Zotero_OpenOffice_Integration.oxt" file from ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/up61ptm5.default/extensions/zoteroOpenOfficeIntegration@zotero.org/install/, or is there a way to cajole Firefox into doing that for me?
Engin
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin, with the same result. Word 2008 is installed.
Second, there's no progress information, so appears that it freezes (and AFAIK, maybe it does).
Can you not have the links in one clear, consistent, location? Maybe it's just a little table on the front-page with platform, word-processor, and version?
Finally, isn't it time to declare 2.0 final and deprecate (at least from the main home page) 1.0?
Simplify please.
It's not a problem for me. It is a problem for many of the students I am asking to use Zotero, who have varying comfort levels with this technology.
I get this error whether I try to install from the preferences option in the add-ons window or from the directory, as Simon describes above.
Perhaps this is an issue with OS X 10.4.11? Everything installed without incident on my home machine running 10.6.1.
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -r /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2008
and reinstall the Word components again.
I suspect my best solution for now is to downgrade to Word 2004 at work, since documents with Zotero citations seem to work just fine in both 2004 and 2008.
EDIT: Link was mangled by the forum software. Copy and paste the following into your address bar
applescript://com.apple.scripteditor?action=new&script=set%20W2008_SCRIPT_NAMES%20to%20%7b%22Add%20Bibliography%5c%5ccob.scpt%22%2c%20%c2%ac%0d%0a%09%22Add%20Citation%5c%5ccoa.scpt%22%2c%20%c2%ac%0d%0a%09%22Edit%20Bibliography%5c%5ccod.scpt%22%2c%20%c2%ac%0d%0a%09%22Edit%20Citation%5c%5ccoe.scpt%22%2c%20%c2%ac%0d%0a%09%22Refresh%5c%5ccor.scpt%22%2c%20%c2%ac%0d%0a%09%22Remove%20Field%20Codes.scpt%22%2c%20%c2%ac%0d%0a%09%22Set%20Document%20Preferences%5c%5ccop.scpt%22%7d%0d%0aset%20W2008_SCRIPT_COMMANDS%20to%20%7b%22addBibliography%22%2c%20%c2%ac%0d%0a%09%22addCitation%22%2c%20%c2%ac%0d%0a%09%22editBibliography%22%2c%20%c2%ac%0d%0a%09%22editCitation%22%2c%20%c2%ac%0d%0a%09%22refresh%22%2c%20%c2%ac%0d%0a%09%22removeCodes%22%2c%20%c2%ac%0d%0a%09%22setDocPrefs%22%7d%0d%0a%0d%0a--%20Look%20for%20Script%20Menu%20Items%0d%0aset%20scriptMenuItemsFolder%20to%20false%0d%0atry%0d%0a%09set%20scriptMenuItemsFolder%20to%20alias%20((path%20to%20home%20folder%20as%20text)%20%26%20%22Documents%3aMicrosoft%20User%20Data%3aWord%20Script%20Menu%20Items%22)%0d%0aend%20try%0d%0aif%20scriptMenuItemsFolder%20is%20false%20then%0d%0a%09try%0d%0a%09%09set%20scriptMenuItemsFolder%20to%20alias%20((path%20to%20preferences%20folder%20from%20user%20domain%20as%20text)%20%26%20%22Microsoft%20User%20Data%3aWord%20Script%20Menu%20Items%22)%0d%0a%09end%20try%0d%0aend%20if%0d%0aif%20scriptMenuItemsFolder%20is%20false%20then%0d%0a%09try%0d%0a%09%09tell%20application%20%22System%20Events%22%0d%0a%09%09%09activate%0d%0a%09%09%09set%20scriptMenuItemsFolder%20to%20choose%20folder%20with%20prompt%20%22Select%20the%20Word%20Script%20Menu%20Items%20folder%2c%20usually%20located%20within%20the%20Microsoft%20User%20Data%20folder.%22%20default%20location%20(path%20to%20documents%20folder)%0d%0a%09%09end%20tell%0d%0a%09end%20try%0d%0aend%20if%0d%0a%0d%0aif%20scriptMenuItemsFolder%20is%20not%20false%20then%0d%0a%09--%20Create%20Scripts%0d%0a%09set%20posixPathToScripts%20to%20quoted%20form%20of%20POSIX%20path%20of%20scriptMenuItemsFolder%20%26%20%22%2fZotero%2f%22%0d%0a%09do%20shell%20script%20%22rm%20-rf%20%22%20%26%20posixPathToScripts%20%26%20%22%3b%20mkdir%20%22%20%26%20posixPathToScripts%0d%0a%09repeat%20with%20i%20from%201%20to%20length%20of%20W2008_SCRIPT_NAMES%0d%0a%09%09do%20shell%20script%20%22osacompile%20-d%20-e%20%5c%22try%5c%22%20-e%20%5c%22alias%20((path%20to%20home%20folder%20as%20text)%20%26%20%5c%5c%5c%22.zoteroIntegrationPipe%5c%5c%5c%22)%5c%22%20-e%20%5c%22do%20shell%20script%20%5c%5c%5c%22echo%20'MacWord2008%20%22%20%26%20(item%20i%20of%20W2008_SCRIPT_COMMANDS)%20%26%20%22'%20%3e%20%7e%2f.zoteroIntegrationPipe%5c%5c%5c%22%5c%22%20-e%20%5c%22on%20error%5c%22%20-e%20%5c%22display%20alert%20%5c%5c%5c%22Word%20could%20not%20communicate%20with%20Zotero.%20Please%20ensure%20that%20Firefox%20is%20open%20and%20try%20again.%5c%5c%5c%22%20as%20critical%5c%22%20-e%20%5c%22end%20try%5c%22%20-o%20%22%20%26%20posixPathToScripts%20%26%20%22'%22%20%26%20(item%20i%20of%20W2008_SCRIPT_NAMES)%20%26%20%22'%22%0d%0a%09end%20repeat%0d%0aend%20if
Just out of curiosity--is this an issue with Tiger? I'm curious, as I'm asking my students to set up Zotero and join a group in the next couple of days.
Just to be on the safe side, I've saved the script in case they run into trouble.
What am I supposed to do?
Is this just a version error thing, or am I really getting 3.0.a1 despite the update?