On 22 Jan 2008, at 11:05 PM, Andy Green wrote: > Another solution would be to use the BibTex group field to organise > your entries instead of BibDesk's groups. If you manually type groups > into the Group field, you'll notice that a folder is created with the > BibDesk folders, just with a yellow colour instead of blue. Once > you've created the groups in this way, you can drag and drop papers > into and out of them just as you did with regular BibDesk groups. And > of course you can then filter against them in Smart Groups. > > Unfortunately, as Christiaan mentioned, this is old functionality, so > it's lifetime may be limited. Although I'm sure there were good > reasons for this change, they are not obvious to me. > > Cheers, > Andy >
I think you misunderstand Andy. It's not 'old' functionality, it's 'original' functionality. And we're certainly not planning to remove it (in fact we have a BD2 test project where we even expanded on the field group idea). Both static and field groups have their own merits. Christiaan > On 22/01/2008, at 7:37 AM, James Harrison wrote: > >> On Jan 21, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> >>>> Match all of the following conditions: >>>> Group contains bowdoin >>>> Keywords contains to read >>>> >>>> This should contain a dozen or so articles which match both >>>> criteria, >>>> i.e. articles I'm using in this paper that I haven't read yet, but >>>> it's empty. >> >> You could deal with this particular situation in a straightforward >> way >> by adding the "Read" checkbox column to the main display. Then you >> could sort in your bowdoin static group folder on that column to >> separate the list into unread and read populations if you needed to. >> Alternatively, you could use the "Read" column and also keyword for >> bowdoin, which would be easy within a static folder by using one of >> the existing keywording Applescripts either manually or with a >> trigger, and then setting up your smart folder based on the bowdoin >> keyword and the "Read" column contents. >> >> Jim Harrison >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - >> --- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Bibdesk-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
