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Hello everyone,

I've just started my PhD and referencing takes me forever so thought FME could do the heavy lifting.

The idea is to have an excel chart (example attached) that I manually fill in with the referencing details and run it through a workspace and at the end I have a full bibliography written to a word document.

The process for this is to take the excel file and sort it alphabetically based on authors surname and then filter the attributes based on the type of reference and number of authors. From there I use the MSWordParagrapher to list the Harvard reference format that I wrote in the text editor

The problem I have run into is that for the life of me I cannot get more than two MSWordParagraphers working at once. If I link up attributes to a third one I get a failed workspace and I will ideally want around 20.

Is this possible? Am I missing something simple? Or is there a better way of doing it?, I've attached the workspace and the source datasets if anyone can help me I will be very grateful.

Thanks

Joe

Hi @j5,

This may not be an FME based response, but have you tried Zotero for your citations? https://www.zotero.org/ I know a few in the realm of academia that swear by it.

 

 

In terms of getting FME to work nicely with this workflow, is it possible to run this as a parent/child workflow to iterate through the MSWordParagraphers (https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/1469/batch-processing-using-the-workspacerunner-1.html) ?

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