Re: [Bibdesk-users] [bibdesk-users] Autocomplete missing fields

[William O. <woq...@gm...>]

Thanks a lot for this very useful answer. I will try !

Best regards / Cordialmente,

William-Fernando Oquendo
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On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Christiaan Hofman <cmh...@gm...>wrote:

>
> On May 31, 2012, at 12:57, William Oquendo wrote:
>
> Could you please elaborate? I already looked at the apple script repo of
> bibdesk without finding one for this task. I am not an apple script expert
> and if you have an example for this particular task i would really
> appreciate. Thanks in advance.
>
> It's really hard to tell, because, as you say, there is no standard way to
> get this. You have to find something taylor made for your situation, as it
> depends on where you get your information from and what kind of information
> those sources can deliver and what information you want to get.
>
> For instance, to update the Pages field for items that can be found on
> PubMed you can do something like this to get you started:
>
> tell front document of application "BibDesk"
>  set thePubs to its selection
> repeat with thePub in thePubs
> set thePub to contents of thePub
>  if value of field "Pages" of thePub is "" then
> set theDOI to value of field "Doi" of thePub
>  if theDOI is not "" then
> set theImportPubs to import for search term theDOI
> if theImportPubs is not {} then
>  set theImportPub to (get item 1 of theImportPubs)
> set thePages to value of field "Pages" of theImportPub
>  if thePages is not "" then
> set value of field "Pages" of thePub to thePages
> end if
>  end if
> end if
> end if
> end repeat
> end tell
>
> Though a good script should have several checks for validity and try block
> to handle problems. You may compare sample scripts that do all kinds of
> things from the Wiki (for instance I have some scripts there that can
> update items from Spires or arXiv.)
>
> Christiaan
>
>
> On May 30, 2012 9:00 PM, "Dr. Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS" <
> z_c...@sh...> wrote:
>
>> On May 30, 2012, at 7:29 PM, William Oquendo wrote:
>>
>> > Hi everybody,
>> >
>> > I am starting to use Bibdesk to handle an already existing .bib file.
>> Some entries are incomplete, for instance, they do not have the page field
>> filled, altough it exists if I look by using the doi or something. Since
>> they are a lot, I would like to know of there is a way to tell bibdesk to
>> filll the missing fields (how to specify them?) by using a given strandard
>> procedure, like following the doi info and/or consulting
>> scholar.google.com. I know this could be too ambitious because there is
>> no standard/simple way to get the bibtex info except for journals like PRE.
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
>>
>> Applescript?
>>
>> > Best regards / Cordialmente,
>> >
>> > William-Fernando Oquendo
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>> > Este correo puede carecer de tildes o eñes debido al teclado.
>>
>
>
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