On 11/23/09 14:15, "Christiaan Hofman" <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 23, 2009, at 22:21, Nick Illich wrote: > >>>> 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. I actually linked directly to the field group help page, since I didn't recall where the menu entry lived now :). >> I'm sorry, I'm a little confused. Why would an entry like 'series' be useless >> for a field group? For series, it's similar browsing articles in a journal, >> which listed in the field groups already. Instead, it would be browsing books >> in a series, right? Am I understanding it correctly? >> >> Thanks, >> Nick >> > > I'd say that a series is much more like a booktitle. There are generally much > more articles in a journal than there are books in a series. Therefore series > are not good for grouping items, as there will be one or at most just a few > per item. Maybe this depends on your area of interest? Grep says I only have two series fields in my database (and they're different), but most of my references are journals. However, I don't recall any technical reason why series and booktitle aren't specified as single-valued fields; booktitle actually seems like a good candidate for it, since I have a bunch of those that are identical. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
