Upgrade StorageOpenoffice extension - no connection with firefox
I installed both the MS Word and Openoffice extensions. The word extension works fine. But when I try to insert an citation in an Openoffice document I get the message:
"An error occurred communicating with Zotero. Please ensure that Firefox is open en try again".
However, even when Firefox is open (btw I didn't need to do that in the first place when using with Word), I get the same message.
p.s. I have my Zotero db in a custom location, but even when I moved the default location, the same error happened.
I am using Zotero 1 rc3, OpenOffice 2.2.1 on Windows XP.
Cheers
Paulo
"An error occurred communicating with Zotero. Please ensure that Firefox is open en try again".
However, even when Firefox is open (btw I didn't need to do that in the first place when using with Word), I get the same message.
p.s. I have my Zotero db in a custom location, but even when I moved the default location, the same error happened.
I am using Zotero 1 rc3, OpenOffice 2.2.1 on Windows XP.
Cheers
Paulo
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Just a side comment: wouldn't it be nice if Zotero could just open in OpenOffice? Firefox is such a resource drain, I'm starting to get annoyed at having to open if everytime I want to use Zotero.
Maybe a future version of the OOo bibliography tool will be able use the Zotero data directly, though. You might want to check out the OOo bibliographic project:
http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Project
Hope somebody will be able to solve this because it is a real showstopper.
Would love to send you the debug info but the last step in the "run Zotero with debug output" doesn't work for me:
b) “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” -console
It will start Firefox when I enter C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe but not with the -console behind it.
I run Win XP, Zotero 1.0.1, Firefox 2.0.0.11, and OO 2.3.0 (I just noticed 2.3.1 came out, so I am going to try that)
Quite frankly, I'm not sure why it worked, but simply highlighting the Zotero.oxt extension in the Extension Manager and clicking the [enable] button seemed to do the job!
Hope this helps!
If you are struggling take a look at your Firewall, maybe the problem is there.
Thanks for clarifying
To check if a path has been defined by another program, open a 'Command Prompt' window and type in the command 'SET'. Look in the list for something like:
Pythonpath=c:\program files\arcgis\bin
where the path will probably be different (unless you also have installed ArcGis).
If there is a system variable 'pythonpath' defined, you can remove it as follows:
Right click on 'My Computer' and click properties --> Advanced --> Environmental variables. In the box with system variables look for the pythonpath variable and delete it (you may want to write down the variable name and path in case you need to restore it).
As last step, go to extension manager in OpenOffice and enable Zotero. This time you shouldn't get an error message any more and the plugin should work fine.
Hope this helps.
Paulo
I'm using ArcGIS and was trying to make the Zotero extension work with OpenOffice and ran into the problem described above. Your solution would probably solve my problems with the Zotero extension, but I'm afraid I will then get problems with ArcGIS instead. I'm using various tools in ArcGIS, and I think Python needed to run them. Any ideas on how I can use both the Zotero extension and ArcGIS at the same time?
Thorbjørn
No sorry, I wouldn't know. I use ArcGIS a lot less nowadays, relying more on other free alternatives. To me this problem with python seems to lie with ArcGIS rather than Zotero, Firefox or OpenOffice so maybe you can report it at their support site?
Just to make sure, I reported it to Zotero support too, so at least they know (one of the possible) causes behind this more often reported problem. And who knows they can come up with a solution.
Paulo
In addtion, when I manage to insert a citation in an OOo document, it is followed by a small square sign.
Hope this can be fixed soon, for now I reverted back to Zotero 1.01
Regards, Jon.
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For the moment, I guess I'll have to go back to 1.01 until this version works with OOo if I can find it somehow.
Edit:
For those who need to revert to 1.0.1 to use Zotero with OOo, this is how I've done it:
Zotero 1.0.1 can be found here (same address as the current xpi, just replace the 2 with a 1):
http://www.zotero.org/download/zotero-1.0.1.xpi
The OOo plugin can be found here (again, just manually change the 2 to a 1):
http://www.zotero.org/download/integration/OOo-Plugin-1.0b1/Zotero.oxt
After uninstalling the current versions and reinstalling these ones, I'm once again using Zotero with OOo. I look forward to trying the new version when I can safely use it with OOo.
report ID: 1127050403
(the different errors I see, I imagine come from different actions generating the error lines)
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[update]
I sent in a second report (1833858649) after running the following sequence of commands:
1-2 errors already there on firefox startup
Working on a blank OOo file:
3- insert citation (it allows me to pick a reference from the db window, gives an error on hitting OK)
4- edit citation (with none to edit)
5- insert bibliography (with none to insert)
6- refresh
Working on an existing odt file (using ReferenceMarks) with plenty citations:
7- insert citation (doesn't open the db window)
8- edit citation
9- insert bibliography (inserts {bibliography} in the text)
10- refresh
11- edit document preferences
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Thanks!
Hugo
[JavaScript Error: "item._csl has no properties" {file: "chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/cite_compat.js" line: 370}]
What citation style are people experiencing this error using?
Wait! It seems to be working now!!!
I do get a square added to new references, but everything else is working fine (including editing references other than the first one!!!)
Cheers! (and thanks for the great work!)
OpenOffice 2.3.1 WinXP
Regards, Jon.
I created a ticket for the square issue.
The discussion here is going way too technical for me, I don't understand the language.
I just updated to Zotero 1.0.2, then also tried to update the OOo plugin.
Problems I encountered:
1. Unable to install the pluggin initially. Seems to be done with a 2nd try. Dont know why, I did everything the same way.
2. OpenOffice says the pluggin's status is UNKNOWN, so I tried to enable it but could not.
3. I opened the document anyway, and the pluggin seems to work when I choose style of citation; but it would not allow me to shift to another style -- I've tried this for a few times with different styles, by opening different documents -- it only allows me to choose style for once; whenever I try to shift style, it reports error when communicating with Zotero.
Yam
About the initial Problem: the solution by Dan Stillmann did the trick for me but I also had to do Prefs/Advanced/Reset Translators and Styles. After that it worked again, I just had to choose the citationstyle in my OOo file again.
It's really great with the new version the "edit citation" function is eventually working and I might know what this box at the end of a quote is for. I suspect it's an attempt to solve the problem of never beeing able to get out of the quotes without starting a new paragraph. It is kind of working and has solved the problem to some extend but it's still not perfect, because you always have to erase the box by hand. I guess you could also ignore them while writing and erase all boxes after finishing a paper with 'find replace', but still...
Never the less zotero is a great project and is getting greater with every release, thanks a lot.