Field History add-on not working with recent versions

Anki Add-ons
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Hello,

Back in September 2019, Glutanimate released an add-on that I really liked: Field History. Here’s a link to it on AnkiWeb. This add-on improves Anki’s Add Notes dialog with hotkeys that allow you to copy over fields from the previous note in the same deck, and bring up a searchable history window of previous values for a field.

However, the add-on has not worked with recent versions of Anki. I have tried contacting Glutanimate about fixing it, but no reply.

Would anyone be able to help?

Here’s the error message that comes up.

Error
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If the issue only occurs when add-ons are enabled, please use the Tools>Add-ons menu item to disable some add-ons and restart Anki, repeat until you discover the add-on that is causing the problem. 
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Debug info:
Anki 2.1.46 (94913ec2) Python 3.8.6 Qt 5.14.2 PyQt 5.14.2
Platform: Windows 10
Flags: frz=True ao=True sv=2
Add-ons, last update check: 2021-11-06 08:18:56

Caught exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "aqt\editor.py", line 317, in checkFocus
File "C:\Users\Harry's laptop\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1247884413\editor_field_history.py", line 212, in <lambda>
lambda: editor.restoreEditorFields("history")),
File "C:\Users\Harry's laptop\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1247884413\editor_field_history.py", line 172, in restoreEditorFields
ret = historyRestore(self, mode, results, model, fld)
File "C:\Users\Harry's laptop\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1247884413\editor_field_history.py", line 109, in historyRestore
(text, ret) = myGetField(self.parentWindow,
File "C:\Users\Harry's laptop\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1247884413\editor_field_history.py", line 80, in myGetField
edit = CustomTextEdit(parent, last_val)
File "C:\Users\Harry's laptop\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1247884413\editor_field_history.py", line 62, in __init__
self.completer.setCompletionMode(QCompleter.UnfilteredPopupCompletion)
AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 'setCompletionMode'

Best wishes,
Harry

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This particular error is actually fixed in the development repository of the add-on. I updated the config.json and config.md files according to config.schema.json and uploaded the changed files here.

Just replace those files in the add-on folder.

I can’t guarantee this will work on the latest versions, as I’ve not tested it much.

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Working on ⁨2.1.49! I love this add-on, thank you so much :slight_smile:

I wonder if it would be worth publishing this on AnkiWeb? Doesn’t make sense for it to be fixed but so hard to find?

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You can publish it if you like, maybe until Glutanimate updates his version, with a note that it’s not the official version.