On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > On 06/23/09 11:48, "Sumit Narayan" <sumna...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just a couple of feature request I thought I will push in for >> debate here: >> >> 1. When we add a new PDF to BD by drag-and-drop, we get a new window >> for entering the details. It would be nice to see BD automatically >> fill details such as Year, Address and Month if it detects a >> Booktitle >> that was already entered earlier. They don't change across >> publications anyway. > > It sounds like you should use the Crossref field, unless I > misunderstand > your request. >
It is generally not possible to figure out any relevant information from the PDF. There is some stuff that tries to find a DOI, Pubmed ID, or related ID and downloads the information from PubMed, but that's about as far as it goes. The PDF attributes can in theory can contain info like author and title, but in practice just contain garbage, so it's useless. >> 2. Along with a Keywords link in the side bar, a link for Authors >> (optional, perhaps) so that I could easily select Authors name and >> see >> all papers by him/her. > > You've been able to do that for years, but I think the UI has moved > to the > main menu now. > It has (View > Group Field), and also, as Andreas mentioned, to the contextual menu for the relevant header row. The popup in the header is really non-standard, and moreover the header doesn't look good with the source list style. Moreover the connection between a header and some groups way down is really unclear. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
