Struggling with Filename Format (Zot 7)

johnlmil

I have recently upgraded to Zot 7 (and ZotFile doesn't work)

I can't get the Filename Rename string to work (I've read the documentation, but I'm struggling with getting the variables to work).

This is the default:
{{ firstCreator suffix=" - " }}{{ year suffix=" - " }}{{ title truncate="100" }}

What I want is:
[Last name of first editor OR author] — [Title (75 characters)]

I cannot get it to just do the family/last name, nor have I been successful to have it only include the first author/editor.

Could anyone who knows how to use variables help?

Many thanks in advance

wuchichou

The official guide (https://www.zotero.org/support/file_renaming) has provided many exmaples for these rename rules. To realize "[Last name of first editor OR author] — [Title (75 characters)]", you can use

{{ creators max="1" name="family" suffix=" - " }}{{ title truncate="75" }}

johnlmil

Thanks very much! I had looked over that page but, based on a lack of markup language background I couldn't get the formula to work.

Thanks again!