Chrome connector Zotero standalone
Hi All,
I know a bunch of people have tried the Zotero standalone in connection with the google chrome connector and had problems and are looking for answers. I did not find a respective thread (besides one that was closed). Has anybody gotten the chrome connector to work right at this point? In my hands it works with certain websites, but only transfers 1 citation at the time. The list view crashes in my setup. Any thoughts?
Irrespective, hats off to the guys developing the SA - greatly appreciated.
I know a bunch of people have tried the Zotero standalone in connection with the google chrome connector and had problems and are looking for answers. I did not find a respective thread (besides one that was closed). Has anybody gotten the chrome connector to work right at this point? In my hands it works with certain websites, but only transfers 1 citation at the time. The list view crashes in my setup. Any thoughts?
Irrespective, hats off to the guys developing the SA - greatly appreciated.
This discussion has been closed.
I'm sure it would be much appreciate if you (and said bunch of other people) would help to assemble these - that's the point of releasing an alpha version.
edit: Such reports should also include the versions of all software used.
Thanks for the quick response. Happy to provide more information. I care about getting this to work. As a side, this is by no means meant to criticize the guys that develop ZSA. I seem to sense some sensitive issues here.
1) steps: ZSA open, chrome -> search for interferon gamma. -> no zotero icon (e.g. the one that you see in Firefox with the regular Zotero plug-in).
2) -> open one of the citations -> now able to copy this single citation to ZSA.
Running chrome 10.0.634.0 (beta). No other issue with this version of chrome. How can I post screenshots? email?
search for interferon gamma where? google scholar?
You say above it works for "some websites" - it would really be helpful to get some URLs here - Where does it work, where doesn't it?
And where does the list appear and then crash?
For screenshots - post to a free image hosting site like imageshack.us (works w/o registration) and paste the link here.
Example:
1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed:
open pubmed and search for interferon gamma. Safe to Zoteron icon appears but upon pressing a box opens briefly but nothing else happens. No literature can be picked.
2) Open an individual reference -> safe to zoteron icon appears and citation can be copied. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21240848
3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferon-gamma
Simply google interferon gamma (or just go to wiki and search the term). open the wikipedia page -> no zotero icon. -> in the past could open and copy single reference. Not today for whatever reason.
ZSA seems to work fine. Have not tried with word integration.
Will post images tomorrow.
Does this work for you guys as it works in Firefox?
cheers!
The Save to Zotero icon does appear in the location bar when Google Scholar is accessed. Clicking it displays a dialog box listing links to the first ten items on the page. These links work and result in new Zotero database entries. However, the dialog box is not expandable. If the user has configured Scholar to display more than 10 items per page, items after the tenth one do not appear in the dialog.
Thanks for developing this exciting new version of Zotero!
B. Pfaffenberger, Univ. of Virginia
Chrome 8.0.552.237
Zotero SA and Chrome Extension downloaded 1/19/11
Mac OS X 10.6.6
And again, hooray for the SA + Chrome alpha...feels like coming home. :)
Chrome 8.0.552.237
Zotero SA and Chrome Extension downloaded 1/19/11
Mac OS X 10.6.6
Not sure about this because it works for Google Scholar pages. IMHO it may be website specific incompatibilities.
http://files.usgwarchives.org/ca/sacramento/cemeteries/union-school.txt
I'm new to Zotero with the standalone and Chrome extension alphas. Never used with Firefox. Looking to replace Endnote. Not sure how/when things should work. Using system below.
Windows XP S3
Zotero standalone alpha 2.1a2
Google Chrome current (9.0.597.67)
Thanks!
I'm not quite sure which specific issues have been identified so far, but here's some further detail on the issues I'm having with the Chrome connector.
System info: OS X 10.6.6 ; Chrome 9.0.597.83 ; Chrome connector 0.9
Based on the instructions I found here:
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/svn_and_trac_access
I tried to the two suggested reference examples to see if the Connector would behave as expected. But nothing happens. The pages load, but no Zotero icon appears. I checked the Chrome console, and it gives:
Failed to load resource | 127.0.0.1:23119/translate/list
Failed to load resource | 127.0.0.1:23119/translate/detect
Any suggestions?
UPDATE: Whoops, turned out I had missed something very basic: I didn't have Zotero Standalone running. Now when I try using the connector with Standalone running, it appears to work. Sorry for my oversight --- but perhaps there are others who have also overlooked this.
aps not working with the chrome connector, works fine in 2.1b2 in firefox4.
I just get a blank popup box, and there is no zotero error(report errors), debug info submitted D431896147
For some reason, the translator isn't able to call the RIS translator. The last line of debug output is:
(3)(+0000000): Translate: creating translate instance of type import in sandbox
Usually, there would be more output as the RIS translator gets to work, but here it looks like it simply isn't being called. Thanks for pointing this out.
For example, http://www.urban.org/publications/1000587.html is detected by Zotero-Firefox, but not plugin-standalone. Also second the request for generic-grab-the-site function.
Very glad that standalone Zotero is underway -- has been badly needed. Thanks.
The next step is to have the browser plugins run the translators themselves -- at that point it will be possible to have the general translators (DOI, Embedded RDF, etc.) run in the Chrome/Safari connectors.
ERROR REPORT ID: 944119564
STEPS TO REPRODUCE PROBLEM:
1. Start Standalone and Chrome
2. Browse to Google Scholar
3. Search for "spectrum allocation" (with or without quotation marks)
4. Click Zotero icon in location bar; the Zotero Item Selector appears.
5. Check n items, where n > 1
6. Click OK
The Chrome Connector downloads n copies of the first checked item.
SOFTWARE VERSIONS & HARDWARE
OS: Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567)
Chrome: 9.0.597.107
Zotero Standalone: 2.1a2
System: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R, Intel Quad Core 6600@3.0MHz, NVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+, 4GB RAM
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.its.uu.se/doi/10.1111/1467-8497.00028/abstract
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.its.uu.se/openurl?volume=49&date=2005&spage=278&issn=00220027&issue=2&
http://www.heinonline.org.ezproxy.its.uu.se/HOL/Page?page=125&handle=hein.journals/umialr58&collection=journals
http://ejournals.ebsco.com.ezproxy.its.uu.se/Article.asp?ContributionID=14014129
However, I then noticed it was working for Sage, Springer, and Factivia:
http://jcr.sagepub.com.ezproxy.its.uu.se/content/49/2/278
http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.its.uu.se/content/q06143164074l369/
http://global.factiva.com.ezproxy.its.uu.se/ha/default.aspx
Hope that helps some happy developer. I'm happy to spend some time testing and reporting if someone wants to contact me directly.
OS: Mac OS X 10.6.6
Chrome: 9.0.597.107
Zotero Standalone: 2.1a2
Chrome Connector: 0.9.1
Thirding the request for generic site grab.
For Wiley, try installing the translator I posted at http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/13800/ -- it should start working.
You're not the first person to report issues with JSTOR-- in my experience, URLs like the one you post are always redirected to URLs like http://www.jstor.org/pss/30045112 (in this case), which Zotero reads fine. If you can get to the more standard URL, and not the OpenURL resolver address (which you posted here), then I think the connector should save the page fine. I don't use EZProxy myself, so I can't really replicate the issue and fix it.
If you want to use EZProxy so you can find the issue and fix it, I can get you access...
/sr
I installed the extension. Saw the icon appear. But didn't have a chance to test it. When I started Chrome again, I have never seen the Zotero icon re-appear in PubMed.
The standalone is running fine. I have check the extensions and uninstalled and reinstalled.. still... when I go PubMed and look at any reference, the Chrome Extension icon for Zotero fails to appear.