Bug: Cannot generate Bibliographic references

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lmendes
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Bug: Cannot generate Bibliographic references

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This happens at least on Linux, I am not sure about other platforms, but on Linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS this does happen. I am unable to generate the bibliography from a database file. I have created a SQLite database for the references and inserted two references, at a later time I do References->Bibliography->Manage->Use existing database... and select file biblio.sqlite which is properly loaded. At such point a I click on References->Bibliography->Generate and the Placement group is always grayed out/disabled, I cannot select any option in the combo box and then when I click the button OK, nothing happens, no references are inserted in the text at the cursor location, or anywhere else in the document. This no matter whatever the Mask I use for the bibliographic references.
Placement group is grayed out/disables, always
Placement group is grayed out/disables, always
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Re: Bug: Cannot generate Bibliographic references

Post by martin-k »

When the two radio buttons are grayed, this means you don't have a bibliography yet in your document and so it will create a new one (the checked of the grayed options).

As to why clicking OK doesn't create one, we would need to see your document. Please e-mail it to forum (at) softmaker.com and mention this thread.
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Re: Bug: Cannot generate Bibliographic references

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The email was sent on Tuesday, 30 November.
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Re: Bug: Cannot generate Bibliographic references

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Please send your original file in which you are getting the problem, your database and complete details of the problem for better understanding.
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Re: Bug: Cannot generate Bibliographic references

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Please find the document and database in the files attached to this post.
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biblio.zip
SQLite bibliography database
(1.55 KiB) Downloaded 112 times
NonWorkingBibliographicExample.docx
Sample document where the bibliography is to be generated
(12.24 KiB) Downloaded 118 times
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Re: Bug: Cannot generate Bibliographic references

Post by SuperTech »

Please read our user manual for Bibliographies as you are skipping step 3.
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