Custom fields - on the radar at all?

jpv611 · August 30, 2014

Thanks for the info and the quick reply!

johnbentley · October 25, 2016

Does the new architecture of Zotero 5.0 make custom fields more likely?

dstillman · October 25, 2016

Yes, the sync architecture in 5.0 is designed to allow custom fields in a future version.

johnbentley · October 25, 2016

Thanks Dan. For the sake of others who might not know, until native support for custom fields in Zotero, a work around is to use the zotero-better-bibtex plugin.

Essentially you can use Zotero's Extra field for your custom fields, which zotero-better-bibtex will recognize on export ...

Extra: bibtex[origdate=1856;origtitle=An Old Title]

See https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/wiki/Customized-Exports

(But at this point of time zotero-better-bibtex only supports Zotero 4.0, with Zotero 5.0 support pending).

bwiernik · October 25, 2016

For original publication information, you don't need Better BibTeX. Put the information into Extra like this:

originals-date: 1784
original-title: An older work

Citation styles supporting these fields will pick this information up.

mbruffey · November 29, 2016

Are the various customized instructions (strings) all listed together somewhere? I need customized data to appear in the date field, for instance ([c. 1849]). Thx, M

adamsmith · November 29, 2016

the strings are simply the name of the CSL variables (listed here if you scroll down a little: https://aurimasv.github.io/z2csl/typeMap.xml ) followed by a colon, a space, and the desired content of the field.
I'm not 100% sure how that handles unformatted dates, though.

mbruffey · November 29, 2016

I can get at the xml file here: https://github.com/aurimasv/z2csl/blob/master/typeMap.xml . The link above does not work for me. Thx, M

mbruffey · November 29, 2016

I can get at the xml file here: https://github.com/aurimasv/z2csl/blob/master/typeMap.xml . The link above does not work for me. Thx, M

adamsmith · November 29, 2016

link works for me in Firefox and Chrome -- I've made sure it's hyperlinked, maybe that helps in your set-up.

opacct · September 24, 2018

Can we please see the 'section' field of 'statute' available to sort, as this would be very helpful when multiple sections of the same statue are displayed.

adamsmith · September 24, 2018

@opacct -- please don't double post. You can bump your original thread as you did if you don't get a response (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/72599/sort-by-section-in-item-type-statute#latest ), though I think the reason for the lack of response is just that no one has anything helpful to say.

opacct · September 24, 2018

K, my apologies. I am using the 'extra' field but as can be imagined, it is very time consuming and redundant.