Can I include Folder Name in exported CSV?
Hi
If I export citations to a CSV file, is there any way to include the enclosing Folder Name as a field in the CSV file?
If I export citations to a CSV file, is there any way to include the enclosing Folder Name as a field in the CSV file?
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Not sure whether CSV is the best format for this though. CSV generally works best when there are a fixed number of columns, and there are a variable number of collections per item. What problem are you looking to solve with the CSV export?
The use case I am working on is that I would like to use the CSV file as input to report generator software where the input options are either a URL link to an SQL/MySQL database, or a CSV file.
Yes, the issue of multiple tags or multiple collections per item is something I need to resolve. At the moment, I am exploring whether the report generator could parse Tag A; Tag B; Tag C and Collection A; Collection B; Collection C to create multiple entries in the report. Alternatively it would be helpful if a new translator could perform this function of creating multiple entries in the report.
Translators can generate pretty much any text-based format. If you directly want to generate a report rather than passing it through the report generator you have (which, if I may ask?), generating HTML is likely to be the easiest route.
The report generator is:
https://www.seektable.com
I think it would be immense work to create a report such as this with Zotero:
http://test.reference.solutions/
Plus the report generator can take this data and create pivot tables by aggregating the data in various fields.
Emiliano - would you be interested in the project for hire to create such a translator?
Thanks Emiliano - the "Seektable Translator" you wrote works perfect!
https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-seektable-export/releases/tag/v0.0.7
For now SeekTable cannot handle columns like that on its side.
If SeekTable were to be able to read flat ODS, it would be possible to add the multi-valued data to separate spreadsheet tabs... or perhaps something like a MongoDB JSON dump. Anything that's plain-text can be generated easily with exporters. Binary is not technically impossible but nobody sane would want to go there (IOW, please don't ask, I might be tempted).