I am trying to import a tab-delimited file of Reference Type patent into EndNote X5. I have a very simple test file composed of a title and patent number that looks like the following:
*Generic
Reference Type [TAB] Title [TAB] Patent Number
Patent [TAB] This is a title [TAB] 12345
*Generic
Reference Type [TAB] Title [TAB] Patent Number
Patent [TAB] This is a Title [TAB] 12345
[TAB] indicates where the tabs are. When I try to import this as a tab delimited text I get the following error
Bad Field for this Reference Type - Patent Number. If I remove the “Patent Number” field the title gets imported properly. I have a similar problem if I use other patent fields such as Assignee, Patent Number, etc.
Any suggestions what I am doing wrong? Where can I find a list ot appropriate fields for a given Reference Type?
From the help section I think it should look like this?
*Patent
Title [TAB] Patent Number
This is a Title [TAB] 12345
another title {TAB] another number
The Reference type fields are viewable and editable in the Edit>preferences Ref Type (modify). There is a reference type: “Patent”. There the fields available in X5 can be viewed - so you should use the terms as they are defined/mapped in the Reference Type or modify the field names to ones you want to use in your heading. the whole table would be of a specific ref type (as otherwise the headings would change, ref type to ref type.)
Thank you for your suggestion. It definitely works.
I followed the video tutorial on importing. The example they give was for mixed reference types. The point that was not explained clearly was that when the list starts with *Generic and if a Reference Type is set to Patent then the parser parses the field labels according to the *Generic label. It is user responsibility to map the Assignee field to the Generic Publisher field, and similar with the rest of the fields.