> > No, it definitely should not be WOK, because if anything, WOK is not in any > way a database. It may be WOS.
The thing is, WOK is a valid databaseID after TR. We should not call this "ALL", since then we need to translate the Database settings entered by the user with if() statements to the matching databaseID. And yes, searching other databases of WOK, such as "BIOSIS", will now also work. It will however not be able to interpret all resulting fields (such as patent number etc.). But we could implement more field retrievals if users want that feature. > > But I am a bit worried with backward compatibility if this is changed to > databaseID etc. All this data from the old groups and servers is around on > computers everywhere with the old settings. Perhaps then we need to take care > of this and explicitly check for the known available DBs, and if the setting > is not one of them use WOS instead. That is a valid point. For backward compatibility I could check in the code whether the database setting is named "SCI", "SSCI" or similar and change the setting to "WOK" or "WOS" by default? The other pragmatic option for now is (my current choice): ignore the group setting database option in the search and simply search "WOS" by default. This does not break anything and WORKS GREAT! Reto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list Bibdesk-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
