On Apr 15, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at 02:09PM, "Christiaan Hofman" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Adam M. Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> wrote: >> >>> I am trying to add URL's to a bunch of records (about 100) and I am >>> looking for the fastest way to do it. >>> >>> I see the following behavior: >>> >>> (1) I drag a link from Safari into the attachments well of a record. >>> The URL field does not change, even if I bring up the contextual >>> menu >>> in the attached files region where there is now an image of the web >>> page and select "replace URL." But when I save and quit BD, the URL >>> field is filled in with the link dropped in. This may happen even >>> without using the contextual menu; I haven't tested that out. > > I think "Replace URL" just allows you to edit the URL as a string, > but it's still stored as Bdsk-Url-x. I'm not sure why the URL field > would be filled in by this, unless you have a script hook set up for > that. >
I understand this now---the "replace URL" option is to replace the URL _in the attached files pane area_. So the URL field should not be expected to be filled in by this. >>> >> As has been said here many times by now, the old URL fields are not >> supported anymore. They are treated just as string fields. >> >> Again: you should drag to the file icon view in the side pane. > > Depending on the bibliography requirements, that may not be > sufficient. If you're dealing with a type and/or style that > requires the URL field to be printed out, you'll need to copy the > link back to the URL field. If you add those frequently, a script > hook that fires on "Add File or URL" might be worth setting up to > copy the link to the URL field. Right---this is what I am trying to do, to add to the BT record, not just to an attached file. But I would like the URL to show up in both places as well. I have about 100 of these that I need to add, and there doesn't seem to be any really good way to do it by way of a script or other text processing trick. It is totally unstructured text with no way of organizing it. ================================= Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS Assistant Professor of Philosophy Iona College -- email 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] email 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] web http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein/ tel (914) 637-2717 post Iona College Department of Philosophy 715 North Avenue New Rochelle, NY 10801 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
