Won't import authors about zotero-to-tana-exporter

[craiguffman]

I was convinced the problem was with Tana and my Author(s) field, so I did another experiment. I created a new field in my book tag called Placeholder_Author(s), leaving the old Author(s) field in place. I then mapped the author information to the new field. It worked just fine!

The Author(s) field is the only one in my #book supertag that appears in many other supertags (like #quote and #highlight and for which I having lots of [existing] data (as one of the images shows).

I am still at an impasse. I can't simply add a new field to source types to address this, because the field needs to appear in #quote and #highlights, too. As soon as I add it to those, the Tana Paste fails.

My takeaway is that the problem is NOT with the Tana Metadata Exported, but a problem Tana has in recognizing the Author(s) field in my graph.

%%tana%%

• Freedom and Authority - The Ethics of Revelation in Karl Barth #[[book^_6xx5XgHAU]]
  • Title^cCIpbmPUkw:: Freedom and Authority - The Ethics of Revelation in Karl Barth
  • Source Status (Tanarian Brain):: [[📚 To Read]]
  • Citation Key^xHHQDBpmEC:: @woodard-lehman2014FreedomAuthorityEthics
  • Zotero Link^QzmszpD0DS:: zotero://select/items/1_8VWCZEB7
  • Placeholder_Author(s)^y96zlUYvCA::
    • Derek Woodard-Lehman #[[author]]
  • Publisher^68nuw_HxwE:: Princeton University #[[organization^_8MjQoFEGw]]
    

[joshjhall]

Thanks for all of the excellent research @craiguffman! This is very helpful indeed. Based upon your conversation on Slack (https://tanacommunity.slack.com/archives/C02DP78UXHP/p1681482307787709) and this, I agree with your conclusion that the bug is in Tana (at least this time). At some point I turned off the auto-initialize on my Author(s) field (possibly because I was having trouble when testing early on, and promptly forgot I made the change).

I'm setting up a vanilla copy of Tanarian Brain, so I can test these situations more accurately moving forward. My live graph has drifted a bit faster from the original than I'd expected, and I wasn't really thinking about this plugin in the context of software to test and release... just something for my personal use I decided to share after the fact.