Import Citavi quotations

dstillman · December 8, 2017

[JavaScript Error: "numbering[collection.id] is undefined" {file: "Citavi 5 XML" line: 351}]

sbirkholz · December 9, 2017

@zuphilip
Here's the file: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/10fc363b6d79dae897e296a4327aa707

I hope that's what you meant...

@dstillman @adamsmith
can you explain the error to me?

Many many thanks again!!!

zuphilip · December 9, 2017

Thank you for the file. I see the problem and try to fix it. Stay tuned.

adamsmith · December 9, 2017

@sbirkholz update translators from the General tab of Zotero and try importing again -- this should work now.

As for the error, if you're interested in the technical details, you can see what zuphilip did to fix it here: https://github.com/zotero/translators/commit/dfd53381ee4ed734657fc3b0074593e6fcfde915
but you can also just disregard if you're not interested in the technical details.

sbirkholz · December 10, 2017

@adamsmith @zuphilip

Fabulous!!! It works. Thank you so much for your efforts!

I did check out the 'technical details' link but as I am computer dyslexic I might as well look at a Chinese novel.

Have a great day and thanks again!

AndriChristen · December 19, 2017

Hi, I have originally posted a question here (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/294870#Comment_294870) asking how to import all the info (including the pdfs) from Citavi (on Windows) to Zotero (on a Mac) and was redirected to this post here.

I have done everything as described here (https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/import-from-citavi) and was able to create the .xml file by unzipping the .ctv5 backup file. When I do import the .xml to Zotero on my Mac, all works fine except that there are no pdfs linked to the titles in Zotero.

Did I miss a step, something like moving the attachment folder from Citavi somewhere else so that zotero has access to the pdfs?

bwiernik · December 19, 2017

Do you see the file paths for your PDFs if you open the XML file in a text editor?

adamsmith · December 19, 2017

(I think it should somehow show up under location in the XML and no, this shouldn't require placing the file into a specific location).

zuphilip · December 19, 2017

I am not sure that this case is handled. I tried an example with

<Location id="43e21b88-2e3f-4e2e-a591-b3d40954c023">
      <CreatedBy>z</CreatedBy>
      <CreatedOn>2017-12-19T23:49:12</CreatedOn>
      <ModifiedBy>z</ModifiedBy>
      <ModifiedOn>2017-12-19T23:49:12</ModifiedOn>
      <Address>Harris 1997 - Evaluating Internet Research Sources.pdf</Address>
      <AddressInfo>1</AddressInfo>
      <LocationType>0</LocationType>
      <PreviewBehaviour>0</PreviewBehaviour>
      <ReferenceID>0781d673-88c9-4c66-8eda-e3a6877cde78</ReferenceID>
    </Location>

which was ignored. @AndriChristen Can you copy a similar code block of this file? There are different options to add a file to Citavi (copy, move, rename, link) which also might slightly look different.

AndriChristen · December 20, 2017

Thanks for helping.
Maybe I should add that I want to (have to) move my literature from a windows computer to a Mac. I am exporting the whole thing from Citavi on my PC to a local folder. Then I unzip the citavi backup file with 7-zip, rename it to an .xml file, copy it to a memory stick and copy the file from there to the Mac from where I imported it to Zotero.

AndriChristen · December 20, 2017

Sorry, the xml posting didn't work, it changed completeley when I posted it the first time.

Here once again:


<Location id="10daaa20-e296-412d-a303-de4a0744df29">
      <CreatedBy>Andri_000</CreatedBy>
      <CreatedOn>2017-12-19T10:02:15</CreatedOn>
      <ModifiedBy>Andri_000</ModifiedBy>
      <ModifiedOn>2017-12-19T10:02:15</ModifiedOn>
      <Address>Compulsory registration of clinical trials 2004.pdf</Address>
      <AddressInfo>1</AddressInfo>
      <LocationType>0</LocationType>
      <PreviewBehaviour>0</PreviewBehaviour>
      <ReferenceID>2cdcac32-d850-494c-a59b-04fe7007a88a</ReferenceID>
    </Location>

adamsmith · December 20, 2017

@zuphilip this seems possible but hard for me to test -- any way you could look at this?

zuphilip · December 31, 2017

Okay, I can look into this. @adamsmith What would the expected behavior be then? a) Link from Zotero to these PDFs, or b) copy the PDFs into Zotero as snapshots?

adamsmith · December 31, 2017

I'd expect b) -- do you agree?

zuphilip · December 31, 2017

Yes, agree. PR is coming...

zuphilip · January 2, 2018

Okay, the Citavi translator was updated now. @AndriChristen: Make sure that you have the newest translator version and then follow the updated documentation https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/import-from-citavi#citavi_xml_format , i.e. copy all files to the same directory where the xml file lies and then start the importing.

AndriChristen · January 3, 2018

What a great start into this new year!
Dear zuphilip and dear all, thanks to your efforts and the released update to the import functionality for citavi data bases I was finally able to get all the data (including the attached files) from Citavi into Zotero. It works perfectly well.
Thanks so much!