Search and replace?

DoctorGeorgios

Hi,

I have over 2200 articles in my library, and some of them have problems in some tags.

E.g. the latest tag I was correcting, was the abbreviation from the Journal of Physiology being 'J Phys (Lond.)' and I was removing the '(Lond.)' from it.

Would it be possible to somehow tell Zotero to change all the Journal abbreviations that have 'J Phys (Lond.)' to 'J Phys' ?

Thank you

dstillman

Do you really mean tags or do you mean the Journal Abbr field in the metadata?

Assuming you mean the latter, first make a backup of zotero.sqlite in your Zotero data directory with Zotero closed and then go to Tools → Developer → Run JavaScript and run this code:

var fieldName = "journalAbbreviation";
var oldValue = "J Phys (Lond.)";
var newValue = "J Phys";

var fieldID = Zotero.ItemFields.getID(fieldName);
var s = new Zotero.Search();
s.libraryID = Zotero.Libraries.userLibraryID;
s.addCondition(fieldName, 'is', oldValue);
var ids = await s.search();
if (!ids.length) {
return "No items found";
}
await Zotero.DB.executeTransaction(async function () {
for (let id of ids) {
let item = await Zotero.Items.getAsync(id);
let mappedFieldID = Zotero.ItemFields.getFieldIDFromTypeAndBase(item.itemTypeID, fieldName);
item.setField(mappedFieldID ? mappedFieldID : fieldID, newValue);
await item.save();
}
});
return ids.length + " item(s) updated";

DoctorGeorgios

Thank you very much