On Nov 24, 2014, at 23:16, Jan Jakob Bornheim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> to anybody with some experience tinkering with the Autogeneration Format
> Syntax:
>
> Is there a way to make an item optional?
>
> To elaborate:
>
> I want to sort my PDFs in subfolders based on first Author/Editor last name.
> This part is easy enough. I set the format to "./%p1/%f{Cite Key}%u0%e”.
>
> However some of my publications, namely court cases, don’t have an author or
> editor. They do have a defined “court” field, which in turn no other
> publication has.
>
> If I just set the auto file format to "./%p1%f{Court}/%f{Cite Key}%u0%e”, I
> will get an error every time I try to do an auto file. I guess I could ignore
> these, but then I would be unable to distinguish between actual errors in
> filing and these expected errors.
>
> So basically I would want the "%p1” part to only get printed if either author
> or editor are defined, and make the printing of the court field dependent on
> the court field having a value. I would have thought that is what the
> "%s{Field}[][][]0” arbitrary field switch is for, so I tried something like
> “%s{Author}[%p1][][]”. Indeed the value in the first square bracket gets
> printed if the author field has a value, but it does not get expanded. It
> literally prints “%p1”.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jan Jakob
Sorry, that's not possible.
Christiaan
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