Change Item Type of multiple records or Search and Replace
Hi,
I've imported over a thousand PDF's of books, and while many of them had metadata automatically retrieved, many were imported as "journal article" item types. Is there a way to change the Item type of say 500 records in one shot (manually changing so many would be cumbersome).
By extension is there anyway to change data in fields of multiple items (for example change Volume in Title field to Vol. .... some kind of search and replace functionality. One can drag multiple records onto a tag to have that tag added to all... anything similar for other fields? Down the horizon maybe?
Thanks
NJ
I've imported over a thousand PDF's of books, and while many of them had metadata automatically retrieved, many were imported as "journal article" item types. Is there a way to change the Item type of say 500 records in one shot (manually changing so many would be cumbersome).
By extension is there anyway to change data in fields of multiple items (for example change Volume in Title field to Vol. .... some kind of search and replace functionality. One can drag multiple records onto a tag to have that tag added to all... anything similar for other fields? Down the horizon maybe?
Thanks
NJ
* enable "Copy Item Fields" and "Paste Item Type"
and use those.
You can select any number of records before doing "Paste Item Type".
I think the one caveat is that it will not prompt you if you make a Type change that causes fields to be dropped -- any fields not in the new type will just be gone.
I've just created an empty Book item type, then selected many references that were wrongly classified as Journal Article, pasted non-empty item fields and... no effect whatsoever.
It did work for other fields, but not for item type...
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/85593/editing-multiple-items-at-once
- Lesson learned: check "preferences" before posting a question...
Anyway, you're being very helpful; thanks a lot! :)