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Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and biblatex (.bib) databases
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Excluding custom fields from merge dialog/import #8354

Open funnym0nk3y opened 2 years ago

funnym0nk3y commented 2 years ago

Is your suggestion for improvement related to a problem? Please describe. Importing data from DOI or ISBN sources usually includes a citation key which differs from the format used in the library. There is also a similar case for files, where there isn't anything one can get online. However those fields are displayed in the import merge dialog where one needs to check each field if it should be included or not. Custom import filters via a java class are way out of my abilities and I don't know if they could be used in online imports.

Describe the solution you'd like The process of getting information online could be eased if there was the ability to customize the import of certain fields.

Siedlerchr commented 2 years ago

This is already possible:

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funnym0nk3y commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the reply but I don't see how to in this image. Could you elaborate?

Siedlerchr commented 2 years ago

Checking the first option : Generate a new key for imported entries will overwrite the keys coming from an import. E.g. the DOI fetcher returns @article{abcdefg.... Now the citation key generator will overwrite it with your defined pattern.e. g generating a new key for that entry to @article{einstein1980...

k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz27 commented 2 years ago

Maybe references https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/1283

funnym0nk3y commented 2 years ago

Unfortunately this does not solve my problem:

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When importing additional data the citation key is still imported.

Siedlerchr commented 2 years ago

@funnym0nk3y I come back to this issue as I recently investigated another issue. If you not want to import the citation key, you should set it to the left or the middle option.

funnym0nk3y commented 2 years ago

But I need to set this for each entry, right? Would be more convenient if one could disable citation key import entirely.

Siedlerchr commented 2 years ago

ah now I understand your suggestion. you want to exclude certain fields from the merge dialog. Could be considered in #6190

ThiloteE commented 2 years ago

@funnym0nk3y Please try https://builds.jabref.org/pull/8361/merge/

Disabling overwriting keys upon import can be enabled/disabled here: image

This method works with your pull-request Christoph.

(Edit: I cannot reproduce https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/8354#issuecomment-1002557573)

Edit²: My bad. If you click on merge, obviously the citation key will be used you chose. Now, if you had enabled the preference to overwrite citation keys, then EVEN IF YOU CHOOSE THE ORIGINAL KEY FROM INTERNET, then it will be overwritten using the citation key pattern you use in your library. At least, if you use the version of Jabref in this pull request.

ThiloteE commented 2 years ago

Excluding custom fields from merge dialog of course goes beyond that. Would suggest to rename this issue then.