Ah, I did miss-understand. Perhaps it would make more sense to users if there were a menu item to add a "Field Group." It seems a bit obscure functionality to have to add the groups by typing a new title into the Groups keyword in an individual reference. On the other hand, I guess that might increase confusion to the already large number of group types that can be added, but maybe that's more of a documentation issue.
Cheers, Andy On 23/01/2008, at 9:16 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
