Upgrade StorageDate ranges for conferences
I am new to Zotero, and have imported my library from Endnote.
I have come across problems for dates of conferences. The imported date field shows the range of dates, for example: 4-6 December 2024
but on output, I only end up with the date 4 December 2024.
I have read that there is a workaround by entering the date range in ISO format in the Extras field, but I do not want to do that - my library has about 1500 conference papers in it, and that would be a very tedious job to manually re-enter all of those dates.
Are there any plans to support automatic parsing of date ranges into an appropriate internal format? If not, this is a pity, because the only choice I really have is to revert back to using Endnote.
I have come across problems for dates of conferences. The imported date field shows the range of dates, for example: 4-6 December 2024
but on output, I only end up with the date 4 December 2024.
I have read that there is a workaround by entering the date range in ISO format in the Extras field, but I do not want to do that - my library has about 1500 conference papers in it, and that would be a very tedious job to manually re-enter all of those dates.
Are there any plans to support automatic parsing of date ranges into an appropriate internal format? If not, this is a pity, because the only choice I really have is to revert back to using Endnote.
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bwiernikYou can use Zotero’s Script Runner available in the Tools menu to batch edit items to find items with “-“ in the Date, reformat them as ISO date ranges and move them to Extra: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/javascript_api#batch_editing
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DonaldBaileyThanks bwiernik, I need to polish up on javascript, but I understand the principle of what needs to be done.