Export style with modified field names?

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Hi,

I am using X4 on a Win7 PC. We wish to import references from a bunch of library searches, modify them and then export them to be imported into a web-friendly SQL database. I am using a Tab-delimited export style but would like to reorder the fields and rename them. Unfortunately, I am not having total success getting the fields to be recognized upon export. In particular, “Epub Date” appears to be a dead string and just repeats in each record as “Epub <date of publication>”.

I am not having any luck finding help, print, or web docs on editing these fields and my time to work on this is growing short. Do I need quotation-mark delimiters? Avoid reserved words?  Wisdom from the community? 

Pointers to the process for editing the Bibliography template for output style or the equivalent would be welcome!

New to posting in the forum, I usually just cherry-pick from existing topics. Thanks!

Kathleen Moore in San Diego

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Instead of using the tab-delimited output style have you tried the Refman (RIS) Export style? The latter exports the data in a horizontal format where each field is preceded by a 2-3 character “tag” that provides alot of flexibility for importing the data into another database.

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Thanks, Leanne, I will incorporate your advice-via-topic and see what I accomplish.

I will add that the Bob Gear treatise  on EndNote 2 MS Access has moved and is hard to find. It is living in an “old”-named directory structure so it may be deleted in future file cleanups. I dug it out here:

http://www.swan.ac.uk/old_lis/help_and_training/pdf/converting_access.pdf

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Hey, Gecko, I’ve never looked at the RIS format. I will take a look at that. Thanks.