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The open-sourced version of the award-winning Qiqqa research management tool for Windows
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Multiple BibTex editing #347

Open GoodLug opened 2 years ago

GoodLug commented 2 years ago

Looks like this might have been a problem in the past, but no obvious fix.

If I add non academic papers pdf to Qiqqa, say three magazine articles, all by the same author, and try to bulk edit the author field, I get red error screens as I edit, and an objection that "There was a problem updating 3 documents as they do not have an existing BibTeX record associated with them." when I try to apply the updates. There does not seem to be any way of adding a Bibtex record manually.

Any suggestions on how to ge this to work?

Thanks

GerHobbelt commented 2 years ago

Interesring one. Roughly, without testing this, id say you need to add a bubtex key for each. Assigning the same key to all is ok, not critical, and can be edited individually later.

Red is invalid bibtex, and minimal bibtex is key and dont know off the top of my head if qiqq also wants title. Key is mandatory, anyway.

GerHobbelt commented 2 years ago

Note to self: add some sort of autocomplete option for incomplete bibtex records