Try adding things like "get" in various places (like "get keywords of
thePub"). Or separate getting the keywords and comparing it to ""
into two statements. Or add a line "set thePub to contents of thePub"
after the repeat line (that is usually a good thing to do with a
"repeat with" statement, annoying but that's what AppleScript is).
BTW, an alternative is also to use the Database Find & Replace panel.
Christiaan
On 29 Jun 2007, at 2:36 PM, Derick Fay wrote:
You can use this applescript to add keywords without opening the
individual publication records. Select the publication(s) to which
you want to add a keyword, then run the script. You can add as
many keywords as you want; just separate them with commas. I've
also posted a copy here: http://dfay.fastmail.fm/bibdesk/
Although the script tries to check for an empty keywords field, it
doesn't detect it for reasons unknown to me, so if the keywords
field is empty when the script is run, the script will add ", " at
the beginning of the keywords. This is immaterial, just messy, but
if someone can tell me how to check the keywords successfully, I'd
appreciate it.
I have this in a command in OnMyCommand, set to be visible only in
BibDesk.
Derick
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tell application "BibDesk"
activate
-- without document, there is no selection, so nothing to do
if (count of documents) = 0 then
beep
display dialog "No documents found." buttons {"•"} default button
1 giving up after 3
end if
set thePublications to the selection of document 1
set theKeyword to text returned of (display dialog "Enter keyword
to add:" default answer "")
repeat with thePub in thePublications
if ((keywords of thePub) is not "") then
set delimiter to ", "
else
set delimiter to ""
end if
set keywords of thePub to (keywords of thePub & ", " &
theKeyword)
end repeat
set selection of document 1 to thePublications
end tell -- Bibdesk
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On Jun 29, 2007, at 4:57 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
On Jun 29, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
On 29 Jun 2007, at 9:03 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
Hi!
I want to add keywords to several publications but do not want to
open each time the publication just for adding keywords.
There is now the preview-pane and it would be more or less
optimal to
click there on the keywords-field for adding them there. Is
there any
way to do it?
Or is there any other way to add keywords w/out opening each
publication first?
Niels
<snip editing in preview pane is not possible>
What you can do is use the field group: choose Keywords as the
grouping field on the left, and drag your publications to the
keyword
you want to set. If the keyword does not yet exist, use Database >
New Field Group With Selection.
Then it's faster to open the publication for adding those two, three
keywords I want to add to each publication (which differ)
Niels
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