@jcolomb Please don’t use Suggest a solution for anything which is in fact a refresh of the initial question and, worse, for a follow-on of a Comment (@EarnestAl’s). You create false notifications for supposed new solutions.
Zotero is a product on its own to manage citations. Inserting them into documents is kind of “by-product”. Zotero team provided this service in a “universal” way, independent of the office suite. This means they didn’t integrate “intimately” and implemented a complete subsystem with macros.
So, either your primary goal is value-text contents and you try to use (limited) built-in features which respect formatting integrity; or you privilege citations and you must accept formatting degradation caused by Zotero macros. I admit this is not central to your present problem.
Zotero citations are “complex objects” in the ODF stream. It is possible that your copy operation does not collect all data needed to create a full-fledged Z-citation. Also, it is possible that Zotero “optimises” citations to same source. Then if you don’t copy the “primary” occurrence, you don’t get all data.
Considering the original question is already 3 years old and addressed a round-trip through an external service, you should ask your own question, describing in detail your context and, perhaps, providing a small sample document. IMHO, this is not a Writer issue, but rather Zotero’s since there is no coordination between LO and Zotero.
sorry about the “suggest a solution”, that is the only obvious button in the platform… I actually looked for a reply button, but could not find it before.
I thought the problem is so similar that it was better discussed here, and since I had it several times in the last 2 days, it is probably still relevant for many users. Also since Sofia mentioned talking to zotero developers, it seemed to me appropriate to continue the conversation here.
For the issue itself: it is not in the copy, but in the paste operation that something goes wrong (since pasting in a new document works). I think it is independent of zotero and lies in the way LO deals with the special fields, but I do not understand enough how LO works to start debugging.
Sorry again and thank you for your time.
Can you attach a small sample document where you make sure the problem occurs? Give step-by-step instructions on how to reproduce the issue. I want to have a look at the exact data Zotero embeds in the document and see if the copy operation (the one retrieving data) gets everything or misses a bit. I’ll check too the paste operation.
Is it eventually possible that Zotero has macros intercepting both copy and paste? (I’d like not to install Zotero in order not to “pollute” my production configuration)