Export Bibliography sorted by subcollections

dennisdd

Hi,

I'm looking for some hints on how to export or generate
an ordered bibliography from a collection and its subcollections.
The tricky thing that i'm trying to find out is if there is a
possibility of the export being sorted by subcollections without
doing a separate export for every single subcategory.

Thanks for your help and have a great weekend,
Dennis

adamsmith

i'm trying to find out is if there is a
possibility of the export being sorted by subcollections without
doing a separate export for every single subcategory.

no there isn't, sorry.

dennisdd

Good morning,

thanks for the quick reply. That's
a pitty. Can you think of any workarounds?
Simply exporting the name of the subcollection that a paper
is in might be such an idea if possible. Or automated tagging
with the subcollection's name and then including
tags in the export.

Regards,
Dennis

adamsmith

There is no workaround - except for exporting individual bibliographies - that I'm aware of. Maybe if you provide a more specific use scenario someone will have an idea.

The name of a subcollection can not be easily exported to a bibliography, nor can tags.

rokdo

Hi Dennis

I read your wish and first moment I thought that the solution already exists. I am developing the zotero autoexport addon and by suggestion I added some months ago the option to split by collection. Nowadays I checked the code and is not a problem to implement subcollections also. However I need your help to understand what you need:
- option to export only the deepest collections
- option to skip empty subcollections
- option to setup maximum deepness because you might nest very deep
- option for name convention or the name of subcollection

If you contact me here or via my homepage I can send you a prerelease for testing!
Thanks for your help
Robert