I'm using a configuration manager (Ansible) to bootstrap Zotero installation. For each installation, I update the user.js file (which influences prefs.js) to set the app config settings automatically for my personal configuration.
This works for most settings, but for some reason I cannot get it to update extensions.zotero.translators.better-bibtex.citekeyFormat (and extensions.zotero.translators.better-bibtex.citekeyFormatEdit, for which I'm not sure how they are related). This is the setting for citekey generation formula. It seems to always reset to "auth.lower + shorttitle(3,3) + year" no matter how I set this config item.
I can update these fields manually using GUI. The issue is that I cannot directly update prefs.js or user.js to have the same effect.
There is a somewhat similar field extensions.zotero.translators.better-bibtex.postscript which takes in JavaScript snippet, which I can manually set without any issue.
This is a follow-up ticket for a converstation here.
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I'm using a configuration manager (Ansible) to bootstrap Zotero installation. For each installation, I update the
user.jsfile (which influencesprefs.js) to set the app config settings automatically for my personal configuration.This works for most settings, but for some reason I cannot get it to update
extensions.zotero.translators.better-bibtex.citekeyFormat(andextensions.zotero.translators.better-bibtex.citekeyFormatEdit, for which I'm not sure how they are related). This is the setting for citekey generation formula. It seems to always reset to"auth.lower + shorttitle(3,3) + year"no matter how I set this config item.I can update these fields manually using GUI. The issue is that I cannot directly update
prefs.jsoruser.jsto have the same effect.There is a somewhat similar field
extensions.zotero.translators.better-bibtex.postscriptwhich takes in JavaScript snippet, which I can manually set without any issue.This is a follow-up ticket for a converstation here.