Renaming Using Zotfile / Wildcard for "Docket Number"

takeiber · February 24, 2020

Hello,

as a lawyer I'd like my case files to be renamed after the "Docket Number". As far as I researched, I couldn't find a "wildcard" for that in Zotfile.

The pdf. should be named: Court_Year_DocketNumber

For Court I can use the wildcard: %w
For Year: %y

Could anyone give me some guidance on that?

Thank you in advance!

Best,
Tassilo

bwiernik · February 24, 2020

What do you want it to be for other items besides cases?

takeiber · February 24, 2020

My other main items are papers / journals.

For them the standard author, year, title works --> {%a_}{%y_}{%t}

bwiernik · February 24, 2020

This should work.

Set the renaming format to:
{%1_}{%y_}{%2}

Then set your user wildcards to:


{  
  "1": {  "default": "author", 
          "case": "court"},
  "2": { "default": "title",
          "case": "docketNumber"}
}

See http://zotfile.com/#user-defined-wildcards for more details.

qqbb · February 24, 2020

This user wildcard might do what you want:
Set extensions.zotfile.wildcards.user to this value:
{"1": {"default": "author", "case": "court"}, "2": {"default": "titleFormated", "case": "number"}}
in the Config Editor and use {%1_}{%y_}{%2} in Zotfile's renaming scheme.

qqbb · February 24, 2020

@takeiber, @bwiernik: Sorry, I hope a second solution is not unwelcome :-) I see two minor differences in the proposed wildcards. The 'titleFormated' field includes some additional preferences, e.g., for truncating the title ("Additional Settings" in the "Renaming Rules"). The 'number' for docket number is what I got using Zutilo's "Copy item fields" function.

bwiernik · February 25, 2020

That's probably better than mine.

takeiber · February 25, 2020

@bwiernik @qqbb

Thank you both for your (very fast!) help!!

I tried both and both work fine.

Again, thanks a lot!

Best,
Tassilo