Upgrade StorageGenerating chart/matrix for an article using Zotero
Hi folks,
I'm a librarian who teaches and consults on Zotero. This week I had a question from a PhD candidate over whether Zotero could create a matrix- i.e., a chart that has various studies with separate columns for author, study type, date, etc.
My best suggestion was to export the items they needed as a CSV file, and then delete columns in Excel until they had just the columns they needed before copying and pasting the chart into Word.
Is there a better way to do this, or is this a potential feature that's being considered at all? The closest I could find on the forums was someone creating a lit review matrix, which is much more in depth than what is needed here.
I'm a librarian who teaches and consults on Zotero. This week I had a question from a PhD candidate over whether Zotero could create a matrix- i.e., a chart that has various studies with separate columns for author, study type, date, etc.
My best suggestion was to export the items they needed as a CSV file, and then delete columns in Excel until they had just the columns they needed before copying and pasting the chart into Word.
Is there a better way to do this, or is this a potential feature that's being considered at all? The closest I could find on the forums was someone creating a lit review matrix, which is much more in depth than what is needed here.
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adamsmithCSV is the way I'd go. The big advantage of that is that it's quite flexible, as people will want different output/columns.
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alydennThanks, Adam!