Hello everyone, I have had a problem with Zotero Integration for some time now, the plug-in. I have been trying to create a template that would allow me to automatically import into Obsidian what I highlight from documents on Zotero. It worked fine at first, but then it stopped working. When I use the import command it no longer creates the file with the clipboard on Obsidian. Checking the template I noticed that the title t is highlighted in red? could that be the problem and if so what is it? do you have any ideas?
Hey there, I’m not using Zotero integration but Citation. I happened also for this other plugin to have all the text getting red. I don’t know for you but in my case it came from the symbole “:” that it didn’t like. I was then deleating manually the “:” an re-writing it manually. Then the red text disappeared.
The red part is certainly not the issue. That’s just Obsidian indicating that the template itself, before being applied, doesn’t have valid YAML. This should be a non-issue, so long as the template produces valid YAML when applied.
Most likely, you need to update the Better-Bibtex addon in Zotero, or Zotero Integration itself. But without further details, it’s hard to determine exactly what the issue might be.
Some questions:
- When you say “When I use the import command”, please clarify which import command you mean, because Zotero Integration provides one import command for every import format you configure. You can have many import formats, and perhaps you’re not applying the correct one. Or, you are using the “import notes” command, which is unrelated to import formats, but instead imports note files associated with items in Zotero. In this case, it could be that your item doesn’t have any note file associated with it in Zotero.
- Please clarify why you are referring to the clipboard in the following bit, when Zotero Integration doesn’t do anything with the clipboard: “it no longer creates the file with the clipboard on Obsidian”
Additional things you can do to debug the issue:
- Open the Obsidian console, run an import, and see if any relevant error pops up. If so, what is the error message?
- Check to see if the data for the item you are trying to import is present in Zotero Integration’s data explorer, found in the command palette.
Thank you! I already update both BibTex on Zotero and also the other plugins on Obsidian. Until a short time ago, I had no problems. I created the template to automatically import notes from zotero, and using Zotero Integration I imported the notes and highlights without any problems. I would create the new file in obsidian with all the text etc.
At the moment, however, when I go to complete the operation, the file with the notes etc is no longer created automatically. But I don’t get any message, it’s as if the command simply goes blank
- Did you check the console for errors like I suggested?
- And did you check the data explorer to see if the expected data is available?
- Also, you didn’t clarify what you were referring to regarding the clipboard.
- Can you share a screenshot of your import format settings?
- And please confirm that the command you are trying to use matches the name of the import format.