Also, a bit like Nathan proposed, you can add an empty static group, and drag the items from the Last Import group to it whenever you import new items. (You can simply drag the Last Import group to the static group.)
I will also add a smart group condition check for a date (added) in the current session. Christiaan > On 11 Sep 2023, at 23:21, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh, I may have misunderstood (because you were talking about “session”). You > are talking about grouping within a single database? > > I don’t think it is very useful (or worth it) to have an import group for all > imported items in a session. It is probably more useful to use a smart group > based on ~Date-Added, for instance containing all items added in the last day. > > Christiaan > >> On 11 Sep 2023, at 18:33, Nathan <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Martin: The way I would achieve your goal (although I may be describing the >> obvious) is: >> >> Sort the main publication table by date-added. >> Select recently added publications that I want to review. >> Drag the selected publications to an empty static group. >> Sort the publication table in the static group by any desired field and >> review the publications. >> >> If it is important to me to restrict the groups table to show only data >> about a selection of publications (and not about all publications in my main >> database), then I open a separate BibDesk database with the desired groups >> already configured but empty of publications, and I drag the selected >> publications to the separate database temporarily where I can visually >> analyze the groups table. (But I do not drag publications back and forth >> between databases, because this changes the date-added field, which I want >> to keep intact; I treat the separate database as a temporary "read-only" >> view that is destroyed after use.) >> >> Nathan >> >>> On Sep 11, 2023, at 10:15 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 11 Sep 2023, at 16:08, Martin Gillis <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Folks, >>>> >>>> Wondering if there is a way to have the "Last Import" group maintain a >>>> list of imports for the current open session for BibDesk. The general idea >>>> is that I would like to imports article and the review them as a list. Is >>>> this possible? >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance, >>>> >>>> -Martin >>> >>> >>> No, this only contains items for the database where it belongs to. We do >>> not maintain a database containing all items for all open documents. >>> >>> Christiaan
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