Export to Excel spreadsheet?
I'd like to export fields (i.e. title, year, URL) to an Excel spreadsheet rather than a bibliography. Is there currently a way to do that, even in a roundabout way? If not, would you Zotero developers consider making one?
http://kimmonsdesign.com/node/24
There are other ways to do this, but that should be pretty reliable.
Solutions for CSV output are enumerated at:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/356/
1. Create a Zotero report (select entries, right click, choose Zotero report)
2. Save as html page
3. Read html page with Excel
The listed documents appear down the spreadsheet, with column A mainly being used for field names and comumn B mainly for field contents.
But not wholly so. Titles appear in column A without a prior field name
Tags and notes appear _under_ their respective field names also in column A.
Perhaps with a little mount of tweaking Zotero could ensure that only column names appeared in column A and all content in column B had corresponding field names in column A
Maybe some one who is good with Excel could now help me move the field and contents from a vertical sequence layout to a more traditional row by row layout, with each document having one line for all its contents. Please post ideas here or email rick.davies at gmail.com
regards, rick davies
http://royce.kimmons.me/tutorials/zotero_to_excel
(Download the CSV.js file and copy it to your folder with the other translators.) It will export also notes and you don't have to mess around the SQL queries. If you try it out, please give some feedback.
1. I customized a CSL to have the fields I am interested in (author, title, journal abbreviation, etc). Each field is separated with a bar (|)for importing into Excel.
2. I have an entry in each collection that contains each of these field names in their respective fields, prefixed with a tilde (~). This makes sorting of the columns work better and will give me column names after it's imported into Excel.
3. I select the entries that I want to export, right-click, Create Bibliography from items, and choose my custom CSL as the citation style.
4. I copy the output to the clipboard and paste it into a text file, then I import that into Excel.
It's a complicated process, but it works for me. I didn't have any prior knowledge of CSL, so it took a lot of trial and error to get something that I liked. I would suggest looking into this kind of export process as an alternative to the SQL ideas mentioned.
got to: https://github.com/zuphilip/translators/blob/master/CSV.js
right-click on "Raw" at the top right, and save the downloaded file CSV.js in the translator directory of your ZOtero data folder http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data
restart Zotero and this will be available.
Aurimas is swamped right now, so review may still take a little longer, but I would expect this to be available soon.
you need to go to that page and download via the "Raw" link. Else you're saving the entire webpage, not the javascript file.
Sorry to be a n00b -- I didn't manually download the existing CSV.js file in my data directory, so I'm just wondering whether it's safe to overwrite it with the github one since I don't know what the original file actually contains.
I look to output my tags, too, but don't see them in the csv file. Is this possible, and if so, how ?
Thanks for your help.