Re: [Bibdesk-users] Adding a field to all existing publications

[Adam M. G. <amg...@ma...>]

On Feb 17, 2007, at 3:38 AM, Christian Burk wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am having about 200 publications in my database and want to add a
> certain field to all these entries. Is there an easy way to do so or
> do I have to edit all seperately?
>

Edit > Find > Database find and replace has a function "add or  
replace field", a choice in the "operation" menu.

With this, you can add a field to a selected set of records. It seems  
that the new field is created with nothing in it; I don't see how to  
add something at the start so that each record's newly-created field  
will have something in it. Further search and replace operations  
could probably be used, if you're not going to enter in the  
information for each record by hand anyhow.

-Adam
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