Help! Can't edit any fields in Parent Item (Info)

aslgibson · July 29, 2023

This just started suddenly and I don't know what to do! I was importing journal articles, and Zotero couldn't find the metadata for one of them so I created a parent item to put the info in manually. However, I couldn't edit any of the Info fields - I can only highlight them. This is now happening for every item in my library, even though I have restarted the program. Any ideas?

dstillman · July 29, 2023

Can you provide a Debug ID for Zotero startup through reproducing the problem, using the "Restart with Logging Enabled…" option?

aslgibson · July 29, 2023

Done - it has been submitted as D626442549

dstillman · July 30, 2023

First, be sure to mention that you're using the Zotero 7 beta when posting here.

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Does this happen if you disable Better BibTeX and restart Zotero? If not, you'll need to report it to the BBT developer.

emilianoeheyns · July 30, 2023

You are on an older BBT beta build. Newer builds have fixed this issue since.

All BBT work for the Zotero beta happens on github. Please report any problems you experience there, but do check first if it is not already in the list of open problems at the top of the issue. If you're not subscribed to that github issue I would advice not installing any BBT build that happens to allow installation on Zotero 7 beta, because the beta-builds do not auto-upgrade to newer beta builds.

aslgibson · July 31, 2023

Thanks folks. Disabled BBT and that fixed the issue. I don't usually use it, and I'm not expecting to have to submit any more work in LaTeX for the foreseeable future, so I will just leave that alone.