On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:47, Nick Illich wrote:
> Thanks for all the info Adam and Christiaan! I really appreciate it.
>
> About group fields, I went to View->Group Field->Add Field and tried to type
> in "Series", but it gave me a warning that says "Invalid Field: The field
> "Series" can not be used for groups."
Fields containing some kind of title would be useless for field groups. There
would just be one group for each item, because titles are generally unique, and
they also do not consist of a list of unique words like Keywords.
If you want to do some matching on a title-like field according to some
matching criterium, you should use a smart group, as Adam suggested.
> The others fields work, such as author (is there a way to link author and
> editor in case there is no author?), year, etc.
>
No, that's not supported.
> I'm sorry, I got the wording wrong about the cite key error. It usually does
> it if I try to add more than one PDF and says: "Duplicate Cite Key: One or
> more items you added have a cite key which is either already used in this
> document. You should provide a unique one." Is there an option to turn off
> the warning?
>
> Thanks!
> Nick
>
No. Things may not work properly when you don't have unique cite keys.
Christiaan
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 23, 2009, at 4:21, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> >
> > On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Nick Illich wrote:
> >
> >> One thing I liked about Mendeley, though, was that when I drag one of my
> >> PDFs to the program, it gives me a button that allows me to automatically
> >> try to retrieve information based on Google Scholar if I type in the
> >> title, etc. Is there a way to do something similar in BibDesk?
> >
> > Not at present. If you download or copy e.g., BibTeX or RIS data for that
> > citation, though, you can drop it or paste it on the editor window of the
> > reference (at least, I think that still works).
> >
> >> I've been able to import information from Google Scholar and other sites
> >> through BibDesk before, but only if do it before I add a blank entry with
> >> a PDF. Is there a way to look up the information after an entry is created
> >> (from adding a PDF there)?
> >
> > There's code to do this for PubMed based on the PDF contents, but not
> > Google Scholar. I vaguely recall an AppleScript from Brian Helenbrook that
> > did something similar with other indexes, but the links on the wiki are
> > dead. You could implement something yourself with AppleScript, I think.
> >
> >> Also, in recent versions, it gives me a warning whenever I add more than
> >> one PDF/blank entries that the cite key is missing. Since I know about it
> >> and will add it later, is there an option that will allow me to turn the
> >> warning off?
> >
> > That sounds odd. Do you have citekey as part of the autofile naming scheme?
> >
>
> Which / what kind of warning are you talking about?
>
> >> Also, when there is a translator for a book, what field does it go under?
> >> I didn't see a translator field, so I created one, but I was just
> >> wondering what others in general used for this kind of situation, if there
> >> is an option I do not know of.
> >
> > You'll have to add your own, since that's not a standard BibTeX field.
> > BibLaTeX might define a standard field for it.
> >
> >> I also really like being able to view all the keywords on the side pane
> >> and browse by those. I was wondering if there were other "browse by"
> >> options, in particular I'm interested in browsing by the series title,
> >> showing all the volumes of a particular series.
> >
> > Absolutely. See
> >
> > http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/manual/BibDesk%20Help_33.html
> >
> > or search for "group" in the help book.
> >
>
> And you can choose the field to use for the field (keyword) groups using View
> > Group Field (or the context menu on the header of those groups).
>
> >> Finally, if my computer fails for some reason and I have to back up all of
> >> my data,
> >
> > I recommend backing up before the failure :)
> >
> >> would the data links between the pdf and bib file remain in place? For
> >> instance, if I retrieve a copy of my bibliography file from a source and
> >> also a copy of all the pdfs that it had linked to, will the links break or
> >> will it automatically know where to find them? Would they have to maintain
> >> the same path?
> >
> > As long as the relative path from the .bib file to the linked files is the
> > same, it will just work. There are some other details that have been
> > discussed in the archives, like this thread:
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03651.html
> >
> > regards,
> > Adam
>
> More generally: either 1. the relative path, 2. the full path or 3. the file
> id must remain the same for BibDesk to find the linked file back.
>
> Christiaan
>
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