Daniele-

Let me make one more try at this for you:

I assume you're trying to generate an html page that is a bibliography 
corresponding to your library, or selected entries in your library. You'd like 
it to have regular bibliographic information on your articles plus a clickable 
url for each that will take the reader directly to a special shared url for 
that article in your Dropbox.

1. In BibDesk with your library open, open Preferences.
2. Click on Default Fields
3. In "Custom BibTeX Fields" you should see a listing named Url that is of type 
Remote URL. Click the checkbox to the right of that under "Is Default." Also, 
check the box below next to "Automatically Convert File and URL fields" if it's 
not checked (it is checked by default in my installation).
4. Close Preferences.

Now when you look at your existing entries in your library, or when you create 
a new entry, you should see a field called Url. What you did above was add this 
new field to your bibliography records. This field is already present in 
BibDesk, but is turned off. It also happens to be present in the default html 
template, so your html export will include the field even if you don't 
explicitly add it to the template. You could also create and name a new field 
yourself, but then you'd also have to add it to the template yourself. That's 
not hard, but I don't think you need to do that to get what you want.

Next, paste the Dropbox Url for each reference into that field in its entry.

Now when you export the entries as html, you should be very close to what you 
want (test it with just a few entries first). If so, the rest is just tweaking 
the html template and/or stylesheet. I can give you some advice on that if the 
above gets you near what you want.

If I've misunderstood what you want, I apologize. I came into the conversation 
part way through.

Jim Harrison

James H. Harrison, Jr., MD, PhD
Associate Professor and Director of Biomedical Informatics
Departments of Public Health Sciences and Pathology
University of Virginia
Hospital West Complex Suite 3000
PO Box 800717
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0717

Phone: 434-924-8054 | Fax: 434-243-3418
<[email protected]>




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