Help removing spaces and dots from file renaming behaviour

xgirouxb_nrcan

Hello,

I've recently migrated to Zotero 7 and I'm having a lot of difficulty parsing file names in exactly the way I would like for consistency with my current database.

I'm trying to get something like this:

L. Guindon, P. Bernier, S. Gauthier, G. Stinson, P. Villemaire, and A. Beaudoin, “Missing forest cover gains in boreal forests explained,” Ecosphere, vol. 9, no. 1, p. e02094, Jan. 2018, doi: 10.1002/ecs2.2094.

Into this:

Guindon_etal_2018_Ecosphere.pdf

So far I got this syntax:

{{ firstCreator suffix="_" }}{{ year suffix="_" }}{{ journalAbbreviation }}

Which produces this:

Guindon et al._2018_Ecosphere.pdf

But I'm uncertain how to strip spaces and dots and add a "_" prefix to the "etal".

Thanks for any help you can provide

xgirouxb_nrcan

Okay I got one step closer with this:

{{ firstCreator suffix="_" replaceFrom="[\s.]+" replaceTo="_" regexOpts="g" }}{{ year suffix="_" }}{{ journalAbbreviation }}

Which gives this:

Guindon_et_al_2018_Ecosphere.pdf

I'm still hoping to collapse "et_al" into "etal"

Thanks :)

poettli

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/118046/filename-format-author-et-al-yyyy-v-author-etalyyyy#latest

xgirouxb_nrcan

Awesome thanks, I modified it slightly to retain the capital letters for authors:

{{ firstCreator replaceFrom=" et al.$" replaceTo="_etal" suffix="_"}}{{ year suffix="_" }}{{ journalAbbreviation }}

Which gives this:

Guindon_etal_2018_Ecosphere.pdf