If you want to use crossrefs just to copy fields, than I would not do that, it's not the purpose of crossref support. That was added to help with crossrefs in bibtex. Using crossrefs can have negative consequences. Also, fields in different types can differ. This may be in particular true for book and incollection, where booktitle really should correspond to title in the other type.
Having said that, you can always add crossrefs to items, and delete fields you want to have filled by the mechanism. You may also partly automate this using Applescript. Christiaan Op vr 21 sep. 2018 19:07 schreef Adam M. Goldstein < z_californianus-dated-1537981647.3e5...@shiftingbalance.org>: > You'd like to convert the @incollection fields to linking fields? > > > > There are some applescripts, I think, that you can use to copy the > contents of one field to another---maybe you can use those? > > > > Adam > > > > On Friday, September 21, 2018 10:01:57 AM PDT For general discussion about > using BibDesk wrote: > > > Having discovered the power of crossrefs only recently, I have several > > > old @incollection entries which I would now like to convert over to > > > being crossref entries based on a new @book entry. Is there anyway to > > > add these cross references retroactively or do I have to recreate these > > > entries from scratch? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users >
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