Search and Replace based on Collection ID using JS

shivams

Hi, guys I am trying to do a search and replace using Javascript. It works but when I try to filter out using CollectionID, it fails. I obtained my CollectionID by seeing the end of the URL of my library collection.

What I am I doing wrong?? Here is the code:


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var fieldName = "archiveLocation";
var newValue = "001";

var fieldID = Zotero.ItemFields.getID(fieldName);
var s = new Zotero.Search;
s.addCondition('collectionID', 'is', 'BCLL4NGS');
var ids = s.search();
if (ids) {
for each(var id in ids) {
var item = Zotero.Items.get(id);
var mappedFieldID = Zotero.ItemFields.getFieldIDFromTypeAndBase(item.itemTypeID, fieldName);
item.setField(mappedFieldID ? mappedFieldID : fieldID, newValue);
item.save();
}
alert(ids.length + " items updated");
}
else {
alert("No items found");
}

shivams

Hey, the problem has been resolved.

I was using wrong collectionID. collectionID is not obtained by seeing the end of the URL of library collection. collectionID is the value that I had to look up from the sqlite database. It is present in the "collections" table.

bwiernik

The Javascript API also includes functions for finding Collection IDs or making arrays of the items in a particular collection:

https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/javascript_api

shivams

@bwiernik: Oh yeah.... thanx for that...