Troubleshooting

Frequently asked questions

We collect and share FAQs and responses on Github at https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/FAQ.

If you don’t find your problem and solution there, continue on to the resources in the Community section below to see more conversations and look for solutions.

Community

If you’re having a problem:

• Search the User forum to see if the problem is already reported
• Search Github issues to see if the problem is already reported
• Read Stack Overflow to see if others had a similar problem
• Check Twitter to see if others are discussing the problem
• Report an issue:
  • First as a new thread (conversation) in the User forum.
  • Then, if you wish, you can create a Github issue.

If you want to contribute:

• Help us translate the tool into more languages, using Weblate
• We have a guide to contributing in the Technical Reference section
• Contribute your feature requests in the User forum or as Github issues
• Join the User Forum and/or the Developer Forum
• Share your successes and use cases with us, in the User forum
• Add your blog posts, guides, tips, tricks, tutorials to our list
• Keep an eye out for and respond to our biennial user survey.