Prevent accidental changes to Zotero references?

[KlausB]

I am using Zotero to cite literature. Doing so, I noticed that I frequently by accident change the content of a field, which goes unnoticed for long, as I prefer to disable field highlighting while writing. When something then finally triggers a refresh, I am confronted with plenty of instances of a pattern where instead of

I get

i.e., something in the editing process caused the cursor to be in the field instead of after it. Upon refreshing Zotero data I will be given the choice to either change it back to the original form (“No”), or decouple the reference, causing it to not be updated in the future either (“Yes”):

Is it possible to make such accidental edits impossible? I already tried Tools > Protect Document > Protect Fields, which had no effect on this.

Update. Upon closer inspection, it turns out that Zotero inserts not a field, but something like a bookmark. The highlighting makes it look like a field, but it is not, which probably is why “Protect Fields” does not affect it.

Update. Related discussions:
Paragraphs keep ending up inside citations with LibreOffice plug-in - Zotero Forums.
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81720

[ajlittoz]

I’m afraid you can’t: there is no function to “freeze” a field usage (which would not make sense form Writer operations point of view).

In addition, Zotero is not well integrated with Writer (it is a “universally” portable addition which goes much beyond inserting bibliography references because it is a full-fledged bibliography database management application). It works through a large set of macros which create havoc in ODF by adding direct formatting. Moreover these macros break the styling you could have applied to your references.

[KlausB]

See update of my question: For fields the option works, but Zotero does not actually insert fields, just something that happens to have the same highlighting applied. I checked it more closely (including looking at the XML contents) after reading your answer:

  <text:p text:style-name="P1">
    <text:span text:style-name="T1">According to </text:span>
<!-- START OF THE CITATION PART -->
    <text:reference-mark-start text:name="ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION..."/>
    <text:span text:style-name="T1">[#somereference]</text:span>
    <text:reference-mark-end text:name="ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION.../>
<!-- END OF THE CITATION PART -->
    <text:span text:style-name="T1">, I need to do </text:span>
    <text:span text:style-name="T2">s</text:span>
    <text:span text:style-name="T1">ome stuff.</text:span>
  </text:p>

Abbreviated, the text:name is really long.

[uefmatty]

tdf#81720 has been finally fixed in 7.6, I’ve just added it to the release notes.