Request: Full date wildcard

[jamieide]

Add a full date wildcard. The behavior would be to use the full date if available, falling back to yyyy-mm or yyyy if not. I could take a stab at this and submit a pull request. Since %D and %d are already used, my suggestion is %g (for Gregorian, the best I could come up with).

I work with newspaper clippings and I'd like my directory structure to include the full date of publication. I'm currently using year ({%c}/{%y} - {%t}) which is okay but I'd prefer the complete date.

edit: I neglected to mention how much I appreciate this plug-in. It's saved me hours of work and kept me organized. Thanks!

[wileyyugioh]

Maybe I can add a month and day wildcard? That way with the optional wildcards it can fallback to a user-defined format.

[wileyyugioh]

Please try the pre-release 1.0.0.3 (https://github.com/wileyyugioh/zotmoov/releases/tag/1.0.0.3) and let me know if you have any issues or encounter any bugs.

Your subdirectory string can be written as {%c}/{%y}{-%m} - {%t}

[jamieide]

Thanks for the quick response! %m does not seem to be working for me. For example, I have an item dated 1927-01-21 and the pattern is set to {%c}/{%y}-{%m}-{%r} - {%t}. ZotMoov moves this to "1927--21 - Half-way house road completed". The month is missing. %M does work.

I can see it implemented in the code but I'm not familiar enough with Zotero to know where it's failing.

[wileyyugioh]

Can you please select the item in Zotero. Then go to Tools > Developer > Error Console and type:

var as = Zotero.getActiveZoteroPane().getSelectedItems();
as[0].getField('date', false, true);

and

Zotero.Date.strToDate(as[0].getField('date', false, true));

and see what the console outputs?

And by item I mean the Zotero citation, not the PDF or other kinds of files like that.

[jamieide]

It fails for January because the month is 0 so (item_fields['date'].month) evaluates to false which causes result = (item_fields['date'].month) ? String(item_fields['date'].month + 1).padStart(2, '0') : ''; to return empty string. It works for every other month. I think the solution is to check item_fields['date'].month == null will returns false if month is null or undefined.

JavaScript is so much fun. Thanks!

var as = Zotero.getActiveZoteroPane().getSelectedItems();
as[0].getField('date', false, true);
"1927-01-21"
Zotero.Date.strToDate(as[0].getField('date', false, true));
Object { order: "ymd", year: "1927", month: 0, day: 21 }

var as = Zotero.getActiveZoteroPane().getSelectedItems();
as[0].getField('date', false, true);
"1936-12-02"
Zotero.Date.strToDate(as[0].getField('date', false, true));
Object { order: "ymd", year: "1936", month: 11, day: 2 }

[wileyyugioh]

Thanks for catching that! Can you please try https://github.com/wileyyugioh/zotmoov/releases/tag/1.0.0.4 and see if the issue is fixed?

[jamieide]

That works fine, thank you!