Upgrade StorageBatch "switch to" two fields or one field on creators
I've ended up with a chunk of items with 'one field' creators, other than re-importing them all with a fix, is there a way to batch edit items to switch creators to one or two fields?
I checked zutilo, but no luck, I assume I'd need to use javascript?
Any help much appreciated
I checked zutilo, but no luck, I assume I'd need to use javascript?
Any help much appreciated
I'm struggling with JavaScript (no coding experience), but it definitely seems possible. You want to set the creator.fieldMode to equal 0.
See "Example: Creator Name Changes" here https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/javascript_api#adding_items_and_modifying_data
In a parallel thread, I've been seeking some JavaScript help, as it would take me some time fiddling to generate a full solution for you... https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/109393/more-change-item-javascript-examples-for-non-developers-please/p1
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I think the translators are designed to do a better job of name splitting, and this solution will result in errors (but at the moment I have a big load of all errors...so this makes it a smaller set I can manually fix).
Oddly creator.lastName is where my names are, not creator.name (which I think is a field used when fieldMode == 1). Code below or gist https://gist.github.com/sjgknight/9a1ba937220621abcda38f401dbe7c80
var newFieldMode = 0; // 0: two-field, 1: one-field (with empty first name)
const zoteroPane = Zotero.getActiveZoteroPane();
const selected = zoteroPane.getSelectedItems();
for (const item of selected) {
let creators = item.getCreators();
let newCreators = []; // Initialize newCreators array
for (let creator of creators) {
if(creator.fieldMode == 1){
let oldname = creator.lastName;
creator.fieldMode = newFieldMode;
creator.firstName = oldname.split(' ').slice(0, -1).join(' ');
creator.lastName = oldname.split(' ').slice(-1).join(' ');
}
newCreators.push(creator);
}
item.setCreators(newCreators);
await item.save();
}
return selected.length + " item(s) updated";