\cite{} not autocreating .bib file reference information

[hansonmcoombs]

More of a comment than a question (i.e. I answered it myself)

Problem:

Texify: 0.9.2
pycharm: 2023.3 (Community Edition)

I had an issue where I added an empty main.bib file to my project. I then proceeded to try and cite something from my Zotero library. The \cite autocomplete worked perfectly; but no modifications were made to the main.bib file (e.g. auto adding the bib reference).

Solution

After a lengthy search I found a comment about a .bib file outside of the jetbrains project, which precluded the .bib file from indexing the .bib file (#3305). I then deleted my configurations (likely not necissary) and restarted the IDE (pycharm) then everything worked perfectly. My assumption is that by restarting the IDE I forced a re-index event.

Hopefully this helps someone else in the same spot.