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Old 04-05-2022, 01:36 PM   #265
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Cannot Merge Zotero-derived data in Calibre the way you can in Zotero
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Originally Posted by partnoonein View Post
With the latest update, if after having retrieved zkeys one wants to merge two books (e.g. different formats) in Calibre, one is not able to do that. Calibre throws a dialog box "Error unhandled exception." and a message saying "Value Error: Column 'zotero_key' is not editable"


calibre, version 5.99.8
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>ValueError</b>:Column 'zotero_key' is not editable

calibre 5.99.8 Portable
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: View Manager (1, 8, 0) && Zotero Metadata Importer (1, 0, 73)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\actions\edit_metadata.py", line 647, in merge_books
File "calibre\gui2\actions\edit_metadata.py", line 772, in merge_metadata
File "calibre\db\legacy.py", line 756, in set_custom
ValueError: Column 'zotero_key' is not editable



Correct. Cannot Merge Zotero-derived data in Calibre the way you can in Zotero. The Z* custom columns are not editable by design to preserve data integrity.




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