Re: [Bibdesk-users] Fields in edit window and when exporting in bibtex format.

[Jan J. B. <jjb...@gm...>]

> On 30 Nov, 2014, at 23:43, Jutta Wrage <jw...@wi...> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> 1. I want so see more fields in the edit window.
> If I import an entry for a new book, and ther eis a comment entry, I can see it.
> But if I want to add a book manually or change an existing one which has no comment when importing it, I cannot see that fiend and add information.
> 
> How can I control the fields in the edit mask? I did not find that in help and manuals.
> 

http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/manual/BibDeskHelp_71.html

> 2. Another problem I have no figured out:
> If I have fields I do not want to be imported by Lyx how can I create a new Library before without those entries (ISBN for example)? For now I export the needed books into a new library and edit every entry manually before using it with Lyx.
> 
> Jutta

There might be smarter ways for #2, but one way would be to create a new library with those entries,then do a database find and replace (Menu Edit-Find-Database Find and Replace), select “Overwrite” as the operation, and then set all ISBN entries to an empty string. Repeat for other fields.

Cheers,
Jan Jakob