Here is a tool that will automatically rename the most recently downloaded PDF with the most recently entered Zotero entry. You may call it directly from the browser by setting a link in the toolbar to file:///c:/system/test.000 while setting the file association for 000 in the Content tab to the location of ZoteroRename.exe.
ZoteroRename.zip includes the source perl script including a compiled windows version.
|wj_ZoteroRename.txt|
I still do not fully understand how to use this plugin. But it seems to be very useful.
Can you elaborate a little bit?
Thanks, this was almost exactly what I needed!
Sounds like a really great addition. I am, however, not sure how to use it. Can you please explain in some more detail how I have to set the tool up.
Thanks!
hello. I think this is absolutely marvelous but I couldn’t get this to work. Could you please leave a hint for us non-perlers how to use this thing?
I tried reading the code but it doesnt make any sense.
Hint for Windows Users: I did not get the compiled exe to work, but if you have a perl interpreter (eg. activeperl) the perl script works fine from the command line: perl (path to ZoteroRename.pl) (path to Zotero.sqlite) (path to folder with new pdf file). Then the newest file in the folder ist renamed to author-journal-year.pdf.
-junin
this sounds perfect!
a few questions:
1. does it maintain the link in Zotero or do you have to re-associate the file?
2. can you make it rename ALL the pdfs?
3. any way to make this into a Zotero extension or a Firefox extension?