What you can also do is replace the %a specifier in your autofill format with
%p. This will use the Editor field when the Author field is missing (e.g. for
the book type).
Christiaan
> On 20 Jan 2023, at 12:54, Alexander,J wrote:
>
> Ah — thanks very much. You were right that a necessary fi
If you show the status bar in the detail editor, you should get an icon to
notify about missing fields for auto file.
Christiaan
> On 20 Jan 2023, at 12:54, Alexander,J wrote:
>
> Ah — thanks very much. You were right that a necessary field was missing. I
> have AutoFile set to 'Author + “/
Ah — thanks very much. You were right that a necessary field was missing. I
have AutoFile set to 'Author + “/“ + 15 words from the title + unique number +
extension’, and it was an edited book that did not have an author. Because
this occurs infrequently, I had forgotten about the need to tem
This should still be working, I don’t recall even changing anything on the
feature. Does your AutoFile preference say it should file the papers in a
specified location, and does this location exist? And are all relevant fields
filled in the item for which you attach a PDF?
Christiaan
> On 20 J
Just a quick follow-up: the preferences are still there under AutoFile, but it
doesn’t seem to be working. When I drag-and-drop a file, or right click and
select a file to attach, it just leaves the file in its original location.
J
> On 20 Jan 2023, at 08:48, Alexander,J wrote:
>
> It seems t
It seems that a bug might have appeared in the most recent release of BibDesk.
Previously, whenever I attached a PDF to a bibliography entry, it would
automatically move the file and save a copy to a specified directory using the
template:
..specified folder…/surname of first author/fi
