Batch editing publication title to insert year

achrist9

Hello,

I am trying to run JS to insert the 'date' field into all 'publicationTitle' fields, so that each item title would be immediately preceded by what is currently in the date field. I am having trouble working out the code - what would oldValue be if I want whatever is currently in the 'publicationTitle' field to remain there, but be preceded by whatever is in 'date' field?

probably not surprisingly this didn't work

var fieldName = "publicationTitle";
var oldValue = "publicationTitle";
var newValue = "date""publicationTitle";

Thanks very much in advance,
ashlee

adamsmith

Could we step back and ask why you'd want to do this? It's definitely not something that Zotero's citation styles would expect, e.g., so you'd be essentially breaking a lot of functionality.

achrist9

I am importing the citations and files into Nvivo, and when doing so by RIS Nvivo names the files by what is in the publication title field. I am working on a longitudinal study in which this is the best way to organise data chronologically in Nvivo (the files I am working with have full dates in the date field). My intention would be to change this back for citation purposes.

bwiernik

I would recommend against doing it that way. Instead, I would suggest putting that combined value into Extra and then post-editing the RIS file after export.

achrist9

Thanks for the suggestion - are you able to provide any further detail on how to do that? Thanks very much in advance!

achrist9

Post-editing the RIS file unfortunately doesn't seem feasible unless I am missing something since the documents are numbered in the thousands, which is why I was looking to batch edit them in zotero. Any tips appreciated, Nvivo have only suggested manually editing the file titles in Nvivo which again given the volume is not feasible.