Opened 10 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#618 closed enhancement (fixed)

Word plugin should have required-version logic

Reported by: dstillman Owned by: simon
Priority: major Milestone: 1.0 RC 1
Component: word integration Version: 1.0
Keywords: Cc: iannz

Description

If it's not compatible with the installed version of Zotero, the Word plugin should trigger a dialog in Zotero prompting users to download an updated version. We can either switch the plugin to toolkit-style version numbers and use nsIVersionComparator or just use an incrementing integer. The latter is probably fine.

Simon, I can take care of the actual dialog (which I think will have either a link to zotero.org or a button to automatically download the correct plugin/installer), so feel free to just throw in an alert() to start.

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by dstillman

  • Cc iannz added

CC'ing Ian, who's working on the plugin code.

comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by iannz

Let me know what you want sent to Zotero via the RPC call and I will implement it on the Microsoft Word/OOo Writer side. - Ian

comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by simon

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

(In [1577]) closes #689, eliminate initial prompt to migrate from fields to bookmarks
closes #618, Word plugin should have required-version logic

still need to:

  • test with Word for Windows
  • test with OOo (I assume the codebase is similar enough between Mac and Win)
  • test with files from old Word plug-in

but, I will probably try to get all of the Word plug-in stuff done before I worry about this (unless there are objections)

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