Is there any way of genarating a report showing overall collection structure and items?

cadudesun

Hi,

Does Zotero provide such a kind of report (or other way to extract it)?

It could be a simple .txt file. Something like:

- collection 1: article a, article b, and so on
- collection 2: article a, article b, and so on
- collection x (subcolection of 2): article a, article b, and so on

Thanks!

reimerth

You could always use the 'dir' command from the command line.

Run 'cmd.exe'
cd\[location of your zotero storage (find in zotero preferences>advanced)
cls
dir /s>contents.txt

You can sort how you like (cf. http://www.computerhope.com/dirhlp.htm)

Edit: oh I see, you want the 'collection structure'. I thought you meant just your collection of files. Please disregard.

cadudesun

It seems 'dir' just provide the physical folder structure (that in Zotero "Data\storage" is plain, none subdivision). My main concern is to obtain an extract of same collection structure I have inside Zotero (my library=>collections=>subcollections=>items).

Does Zotero provide reports like this(or other way of visualizing)?

Thanks!

mronkko

As far as I know, there is no option to print the collection structure. Depending on how badly you need this, you could get it from the database with little scripting.

cadudesun

I have not used script through Zotero yet.

Could you provide me any idea (or where to find) information about script applied to the mentioned usage?

Thanks in advance!

mronkko

There is no ready made script, but you would need to program it yourself. (Or hire someone to do it for you)

cadudesun

Hi mronkko.
In my case it seems I will hide someone.
May you tell me what kind of knowledge I should look for?
Thanks!

adamsmith

You'll just need javascript and this particular task is actually decently well documented:
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/javascript_api