Help writing a export translator

erazlogo · December 25, 2021

I am writing a translator to export a few item fields in a format that would work with a Dataview plugin in Obsidian. I'm not an expert and can only work from existing examples. I have two problems:

1. I am converting the Date field like this:
var date = "Date:: " + Zotero.Utilities.strToISO(item.date) + "\n";
For items with year/month/day date, I end up with YYYY-MM-DD (this is what I need). But for books I get only YYYY. How do I get from YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD? For example, I need to get from 1996 to 1996-01-01

2. I can only export the first author because I modified the code included here: https://github.com/silentdot/zotero-markdown-translator/releases
But I need to export all authors for each item. Where can I get the code for the loop to get all authors?

Thanks!

adamsmith · December 25, 2021

1. Since YYYY is a perfectly valid ISO date, that's what Zotero gives you when there's only a year in the date. If you always want -01 added, I'd just do it manually (untested):


let isodate = ZU.strToISO(item.date);
if (isodate.length == 4) {
  isodate += "-01-01" 
} else if (isodate.length == 7) {
  isodate += "-01"
}

"Date::  " + isodate + "\n";

Tbc

emilianoeheyns · December 25, 2021

I am converting the Date field like this: var date = “Date::” + Zotero.Utilities.strToISO(item.date) + “”; For items with year/month/day date, I end up with YYYY-MM-DD (this is what I need). But for books I get only YYYY. How do I get from > YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD? For example, I need to get from 1996 to 1996-01-01

var date = Zotero.Utilities.strToISO(item.date);
if (date.length) {
  switch (date.split('-').length) {
    case 1:
      date += '-01-01';
      break;
    case 2:
      date += '-01';
      break;
  }

  date = `Date:: ${date}\n`;
}

But I need to export all authors for each item. Where can I get the code for the loop to get all authors?

if (item.creators && item.creators.length) {
  var creators = item.creators.map(creator => creator.lastName || creator.name).join('; ')
}

or

if (item.creators) {
  for (const creator of item.creators) {
    // do something with creator here
  }
}

erazlogo · December 25, 2021

Thank you!!! (both of you)