Feature request: citation key per library and/or collection

[bwakkie]

Debug log ID

VZK7ZJUU-fio-tl3ML416QAe2

What happened?

Hello,

I have been using betterbibtex extensively for converting multiple bib(la)tex files for different purposes especially exporting the bib(la)tex file locally and love it! (also in combination with jabref/vim regex for different functionalities I could not find in Zotero)

I created a personal citation key formula for a specific project ...
auth.substring(1,3).upper+year.substring(3,2)+title.skipwords.select(1,1).substring(1,3).upper
... however I'd like an other one for different libraries/collections.

It would be extremely useful if I can assign different formulae to different libraries/collections which the preferences tab suggests: [Citation keys]

Cheers and keep up the good work!

[retorquere]

Per-collection is not possible, since the same item can exist in multiple collections. Per-library is in principle possible, I'll look into it, but it'll be a major change, so it's not a short-term thing.

[failiz]

I would like also this. In my case, I have my own citation key, but I am now collaborating with other persons in a survey paper with a shared library and they use a different citation key.

[FlowyCoder]

I would also appreciate this. Working on different papers where we have chosen different citation key styles.

Is there any way to help?

[retorquere]

The primary issue, believe it or not, is to create the ui for it in the preferences. The rest isn't trivial but not hard.

[retorquere]

No wait, I have an idea.

[github-actions]

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[retorquere]

this build adds two functions:

library will return nothing but will jump to the next formula if the item is not in your library, so

library + year; title

will use just the year for items in your library, just the title for all else. Inversely, group(name) will return nothing but jump to the next formula if the item is in your library, or in a group that isn't "name"