I posted a script to do this sometime last year. 1st you create a smart folder of all books (or inbooks) where address is blank. Then select all in the folder and run the script. It has the addresses for 20-30 university presses as I recall - you can edit the script and it should be self-evident how to add more press / address pairs.
It's posted towards the bottom of http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/bibdesk/index.php?title=BibDesk_Applescripts Derick >> Dear List, >> >> I guess the following problem a job for applescript: >> >> I need to fill in the "address" field for the publishers in my list >> to >> cope with the modern fad for putting both the place and name of >> publishers. (Not so long ago this was regarded as a waste of effort, >> but I digress...) >> >> I need to search on the publisher field and create an address/ >> location field >> where it is empty. >> >> I don't suppose there is a neat way to create a dialog box to do this >> with applescript, is there? > > Not sure exactly what you'd want AppleScript to do. It cannot know > what to set the Address field to. You can show dialogs and get/set > fields in AppleScript. > >> And if so, is it possible that it could >> auto-complete the publisher's names? Or is that just asking too >> much...? ;-) >> > > Auto-complete only works in the detail editor, it's not available to > AppleScript. > >> Best wishes, >> >> Nicholas > > I think the easiest way to do this is to create a smart group that > filters out all book items with an empty address, and fill in the > details manually. > > Christiaan > > ============================================= Derick A. Fay, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology University of California, Riverside ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
