Look up button & DOI metadata fetcher

[David Coeurjolly]

Hi John & referencers,

I've troubles with the DOI look up button: the button is always
disabled. Bug #133074 seems to report the problem but the patch does not
work (probably because I applied it to SVN rev551 instead of 542).

By the way, I'd like to use the DOI metadata fetcher with a crossref
account (see workaround in bug #138024) but neither the button
(disabled), nor the "Add Ref with DOI" command fetch the data: if I
enter a ref with DOI, I obtain the following Warning:

Warning: DocumentList::getDoc: couldn't find doc with name 'Unnamed'

And the 'Unnamed' entry hasn't got any metadata....

Note that the CrossRef workaround works because if I use the Pref
openurl address in my browser, I obtain the correct XML data.

any Idea ?

Refs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/referencer/+bug/133074
https://bugs.launchpad.net/referencer/+bug/138024

regards,
dav

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[John Spray]

Salut David,

Post by David Coeurjolly
Hi John & referencers,
I've troubles with the DOI look up button: the button is always
disabled. Bug #133074 seems to report the problem but the patch does not
work (probably because I applied it to SVN rev551 instead of 542).

Sounds like you've got "Work offline" checked in the Library menu.

Post by David Coeurjolly
By the way, I'd like to use the DOI metadata fetcher with a crossref
account (see workaround in bug #138024) but neither the button
(disabled), nor the "Add Ref with DOI" command fetch the data: if I
Warning: DocumentList::getDoc: couldn't find doc with name 'Unnamed'

That's an unrelated warning which I should really silence: it is making
the slightly dumb statement that the document it's trying to create
doesn't already exist :-)

Post by David Coeurjolly
And the 'Unnamed' entry hasn't got any metadata....

Would also be explained by work offline being enabled.

Referencer could really use some work... I've been fixing it up "next
weekend" for a couple of months now!

John

[David Coeurjolly]

Post by John Spray
Salut David,

Post by David Coeurjolly
Hi John & referencers,
I've troubles with the DOI look up button: the button is always
disabled. Bug #133074 seems to report the problem but the patch does not
work (probably because I applied it to SVN rev551 instead of 542).

Sounds like you've got "Work offline" checked in the Library menu.

well ;) ... I'm feeling a bit stupid... you're right: I was in the
Offline mode. Everything works perfectly Online.

I have no excuse but an icon (as in browsers) could be useful to advice
the user (a stupid one as myself;)) that he's offline.

-dav

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