This is an extremely annoying bug.
Using Debian Etch OS Iceweasel (firefox) v 2.0.0.14
If I click my "post to citeulike" bookmark button while looking at a journal article which citeulike does not support, It brings up a blank post article form. After filling this form out I find that it always overwrites the entry which I made on 6/21/2007. It overwrites all of the contents of that old entry and then suggests the tags from the old entry after I submit. If I change the tags to the appropriate ones for the new entry and submit, the new entry is created but citeulike thinks I made it on 6/21/2007 and the previous entry is lost. boooooo
This does not happen when I go to my citeulike homepage and click post manually. But usually I try the browser button just to see if it works with that journal. This is very annoying. Please fix and please support CSA Illumina and/or ISI Web of Knowledge
Posted by fornstar on 2008-07-16 00:04:45.
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I'm not sure exactly what you're doing, but I think that the article in question has an ID of 80546. This infamous article has the URL "about:blank". When you try to post that URL, CiteULike sees that it has already been posted (as article 80546, back in the dim and distant past) and assumes that you are just another person bookmarking that URL. I don't see what you are doing to get "about:blank" though - perhaps you could walk me through it step by step? I use Firefox on a Mac, so I should be able to replicate your steps exactly.
Posted by cjhall on 2008-07-16 08:27:42.
Yes, it does post as the article with URL "about:blank" and has ID 80546. It is very easy to trick citeulike into doing this.
Go to an entry from an unsupported journal or database, for instance
http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/71/9/5484
or
select any entry from the results of a web of science search or your favorite unsupported database, for example csa illumina. Link below probably wont work. http://csaweb113v.csa.com/ids70/view_record.php?id=2&recnum=1&log=from_res&SID=387ca11ba8c01260c9a63b46b762045e&mark_id=search%3A2%3A0%2C0%2C2
Post either entry using the browser buttton. It automatically classifies the url as about:blank and therefore the entry is 80546. I see 693 other people have done something similar.
Thank you cjhall for your help. I hope this can be resolved soon. Not sure if you'd call it a bug, but it is definitely an undesirable feature.
Posted by fornstar on 2008-07-16 21:03:10.
It works perfectly for me, using the popup browser button. Which browser button are you using - the popup or the non-popup. Do you have the most recent version (it hasn't changed for about a year)?
Could you post the URL that you see in the URL bar at the point where you can enter tags? It looks to me like your Firefox is misbehaving - I know from experience that it can sometimes make a pigs ear of working out which window is which...
Posted by cjhall on 2008-07-16 21:26:58.
I was using the old non-popup button with the latest version of firefox. I just deleted the old browser button (bookmarked it about 16 months ago) and bookmarked the latest versions of both the popup and the non-popup buttons. They both work! Thanks cjhall!
Posted by fornstar on 2008-07-16 22:47:12.