Short answer: no, you cannot tell bibdesk to omit fields to import.  
You could use the database Find & Replace to change one field in a  
bunch of items at once. Are you importing files at once, or one-by- 
one? In the former case you could use the Last Import group to select  
the items to change. Otherwise you could perhaps add a smart group  
that lists all items added in the last day.

Christiaan

On 18 Jul 2007, at 8:33 PM, Armin Goralczyk wrote:

> Hi
> I have a problem with the actually quite nice keyword feature. Maybe
> someone has a solution for this.
> Problem:
> I use medline format to import my bibliographic information. It comes
> with already with keywords to each entry, which can be very diverse
> and manifold, i.e. up to twenty for an entry (for those of you who
> also use medline: those are the MeSH-Terms associated with each
> entry). Now I have over 2000 keywords which makes the keywords feature
> useless for me.
>
> I would like to use the keyword feature rather as delicious
> (http://del.icio.us/) uses tags. The delicious tags are very useful.
> So I would like to delete all my keywords and assign new ones.
> Deletion could be done by using regexp (which I am not familiar with;
> can anyone suggest the right regexp?!) and search-replace (e.g. in
> emacs). Then I assign new keywords. But then every time I import
> medline entries I have to delete the medline keywords or otherwise my
> keywords will be cluttered up in a few weeks. I import many entries at
> once and often, so doing this manually is not an option.
>
> Thus the question is: Can I tell bibdesk to omit fields when I import?
>
> Sorry that this got so long.
> Sincerely,
> -- 
> Armin Goralczyk, M.D.
> Dept. of General Surgery
> University of Göttingen
> Göttingen, Germany
> http://www.chirurgie-goettingen.de
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