How to access EndNote rec-number to use for Cite Key?

Hi John,

Last night I check in some changes that will allow you to change the field mapping or map previously un-mapped fields (such as rec-num) to biblio fields. You will find this on the "admin/settings/biblio/fields/typemap" page of the latest 1.x-dev release.

I'm a little hesitant about relying on record numbers for this though, since while record numbers are unique within an EndNote Library, if someone deleted an entry and then added it back, it would have a different record number and if libraries are merged the incoming record numbers will change. The following is from the EndNote manual...

Keep the following points about record numbers in mind:

• EndNote automatically assigns a record number sequentially to each reference as it is added to a library.
• If the same reference appears in two different libraries, the record numbers will most likely be different.
• Record numbers are never reused or reassigned within a library. When you delete a reference, the corresponding record number is never used again in that library.
• You cannot modify or reassign record numbers.
• We recommend that you not rely on EndNote’s record numbers as a means of filing or numbering your office reprints, because you have no control over this number. Instead, enter your own unique number into the Label field, or any Custom field, and use that number for your reprints.

If you add the reference to the library again, it will be assigned a new, different record number, so EndNote still will not be able to find it when formatting your paper. You will need to reinsert the citation into the paper using the new reference in your library.

If everything were easy, we'd have nothing to do :-)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily saying not to use it, but you and the person maintaining the EndNote library, need to be aware of the way that EndNote deals with record identifiers and work accordingly if you don't want them to change.

By the way, the 6.x-2.x branch has "exact duplicate" detection built in, so if you just make additions to a EN library (not changes to existing entries), then only the new entries will be imported and the existing ones will be completely ignored on subsequent imports.

Ron.

Hi John,

Field mapping is on the same page (admin/settings/biblio/fields/typemap), so I'm guessing a "cache clear" is in order (admin/settings/performance and click "Clear cached data" near the bottom of the page.

Your citekey generation "should" work, I'll test it out and get back to you (I don't have an EN xml file handy right now).

There was a small (but obviously significant) but in the citekey generation code which is fixed now.
http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=390438

Ron.

Oops, sorry that was my fault.

Quick fix is to edit the file biblio.type.mapper.inc and uncomment (remove "//" before 'title') on line 559

      case 'endnote8':
        return array(
                 'source-app'               => '',
                 'rec-number'               => '',
                 'ref-type'                 => 'biblio_type',
                 'auth-address'             => 'biblio_auth_address',
                 'auth-affiliaton'          => '',
                // 'title'                    => '', //handled separately                       <==== line 559
                 'secondary-title'          => 'biblio_secondary_title',
                 'tertiary-title'           => 'biblio_tertiary_title',
                 'alt-title'                => 'biblio_alternate_title',
                 'short-title'              => 'biblio_short_title',
                 'translated-title'         => 'biblio_translated_title',

OK, my bad!

This time I actually tested it :-)

I've checked in the fix to the -dev version, but here's the quick fix if you need it (same line, same file, just add 'title' next to the title key of the array...

     case 'endnote8':
        return array(
                 'source-app'               => '',
                 'rec-number'               => '',
                 'ref-type'                  => 'biblio_type',
                 'auth-address'             => 'biblio_auth_address',
                 'auth-affiliaton'          => '',
                 'title'                       => 'title',                                  //<==== line 559
                 'secondary-title'        => 'biblio_secondary_title',
                 'tertiary-title'           => 'biblio_tertiary_title',
                 'alt-title'                => 'biblio_alternate_title',
                 'short-title'              => 'biblio_short_title',
                 'translated-title'         => 'biblio_translated_title',

Sorry about that, that line got messed up when I added the field mapping and moved that stuff from the endnote8.parser.inc file.

Ron.

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