Re: [Bibdesk-users] folder organization / subfolders

[Christiaan H. <cmh...@gm...>]

On Apr 2, 2015, at 20:53, Jan David Hauck wrote:

> Hello everyone, 
> 
> I keep on bumping into the problem of how to organize my folders in BibDesk (i.e., mainly the "Static" folders in the sidebar which I use for different writing projects/chapters etc.).  The ideal would be, of course, subfolders but it doesn't look as if that was possible. There was a feature request "#195 allow group subfolders" but it seems to have been postponed till BibDesk 2 which seems to have been abandoned.  
> 
> So what I'd like to ask here, 
> how are others handling a large amount of different bibliographies for different projects?  
> Has anyone found a workaround to get a subfolder-like behavior?
> Are you maybe using BibDesk together with some other programs?
> Any ideas are greatly appreciated!
> 
> And then, for the developers, is there any way you guys could implement subfolders in the current BibDesk branch (a "grouping" folders feature or something)?  Since BibDesk lets us show/hide the different categories (smart, static, keywords etc.) I thought maybe it'd be possible instead of one "static groups" category to have multiple of those or would that be too complicated?  
> 
> Thanks a lot!  
> 
> Jan D. 

No, it is not feasible to allow adding multiple static group (or folder groups). What you can do is add multiple group fields, which basically has the same effect. A group field acts like a folder, while a value of that field in any publication is like a group to which it belongs in that folder. You can add publications to such a group using drag and drop, or by editing the group field in a publication. To create a new "group" in the "folder", use Add Field to add the "folder" field to a publication, and set its value to the group

Christiaan