Variable substitutions?

Catweasel · September 23, 2017

I would like to make variable substitutions and cannot seem to get it to work.
For example: when the genre variable is Dissertation use the abbreviation Diss.
Is this possible? How?

Thanks,

Kurt

bwiernik · September 23, 2017

Zotero can't do this sort of abbreviation natively.

The Abbreviations Filter plugin can do this sort of ad hoc abbreviations (I'm not sure whether it is currently updated to work with Zotero 5.0):
https://juris-m.github.io/downloads/#auxiliary-plugins

Catweasel · September 23, 2017

Thanks bwiernik.
I suspected variable comparison was not supported. As this will be a stye file for student use, I want to keep it simple. I think it will be easiest to abbreviate thesis types when importing- or just leave them intact.

bwiernik · September 23, 2017

I would honestly just leave them intact.