I know URL fields have been discussed a good bit, but I'd just like to make sure I'm using them as intended in the templates that are supplied with CiteInPages--and that I express accurately to other users any issues in the way I'm using them that they should understand.
For several types of references that are commonly accessible electronically, I have an optional end to their template that uses $fields.URL (or just $URL) and lastchecked to generate a statement like "Available from <url goes here>, last checked on <date in lastchecked goes here>." Since you can have multiple links per file, there is the potential for some confusion. That leads to a couple of comments and questions: 1. The url and local file fields seem to work fine in separating the links correctly. I assume that the local file field gets everything starting with "file:" and the url field can contain http, ftp, gopher (if any are left), etc. It appears that "mailto:"; isn't supported yet :-). 2. My understanding is that there can be multiple URL fields. If so, does $fields.URL get the contents of the first URL field? Also, do I remember correctly that the first field sorts to the top (front, I know it's a grid) of the URLs in the thumbnail previews and that you can change the order of the fields by dragging the thumbnails-- allowing a choice and visual confirmation of what will be returned by $fields.URL? 3. Can there be more than one lastchecked field and if so is there a linkage between URL fields and lastchecked fields? I'm also OK if there is one lastchecked field that should be associated with the primary (frontmost) URL field. 4. Does my general approach seem OK for the way URLs and lastchecked are intended to be used now? By the way, it would be slick if there was a way from the thumbnail views to set a URL as the "main" URL and also reset its lastchecked date to today. Jim Harrison UVa ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
