The addition of items by identifier such as ISBN is a cute innovation in Zotero 2.0. I wish it were possible to add multiple items at one go (e.g. a list of ISBNs, perhaps comma separated).
We can probably make an import translator that could import lists of identifiers from files. Though we would need some way to identify such files and possibly specify the identifier type.
A unique header like "IDENTIFIER_LIST DOI" followed by a new line-separated list of DOIs should be manageable. We could support multiple identifiers like that.
I guess we can just make the magic wand text box expandable into a multi-line box, since comma separated DOIs would not work. Unless you want to split by space. IMO new line would make sense.
Or it could just pull out DOIs from the pasted content, as the DOI translator does. We've talked about supporting this via the browser context menu as well, which would do the same thing.
Spaces should be fine for DOI and PMID, but I was concerned about ISBNs. Clearly users tend to paste ISBNs with spaces, since Simon recently pushed a patch to remove spaces from ISBN
Unless, of course, you don't want to use the magic wand box for this.
If the potential spaces in ISBNs are in consistent places, we could just add those into the regexp and still pull all three types of ids out from the pasted content.
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I have a large list of DOIs... and it would be nice to add them all at once and not one by one...
A unique header like "IDENTIFIER_LIST DOI" followed by a new line-separated list of DOIs should be manageable. We could support multiple identifiers like that.
Why not use [\s\n]+
Unless, of course, you don't want to use the magic wand box for this.
If the potential spaces in ISBNs are in consistent places, we could just add those into the regexp and still pull all three types of ids out from the pasted content.