I've done it. Maybe I need some template tweaking, but I'll consider writing to Jim personally in order not to bother the mailing list Thank you all for your help Dan
Il giorno 04/apr/2013, alle ore 23:04, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > On Apr 4, 2013, at 21:53, James Harrison wrote: > >> 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). > > I don't see why the second part of this step would be necessary for this > particular issue. This only copies the Url field into the linked remote URLs. > >> 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. > > Actually, it is not really present in the default template. It just happens > to show up with the default template because there is an error in that > template (as I explained), and due to a quirky coincidence it picks up the > Url field instead. > > BTW, for the next release (and tomorrow's nightly build) the error in the > template is fixed, though it won't automatically be applied (you have to do > that by hand by either removing the erroneous template first or by resetting > from the prefs.) > > Christiaan > >> 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]> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. > Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire > the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the > Employer Resources Portal > http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
