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Thanks, Jon! Here is what would be great to have, in the style of the Bookends user guide. I have changed the API from what I wrote earlier, to make it more parsimonious. I don't know much about Apple Events, so there might be things that have to be done differently. The first two API methods would ...

Alternatively, if that is too much hassle, it would be enough for me to just be able to get the path of a single record in the group hierarchy: getGroupPath( refId ) -> string (for example "foo/bar/baz") This would allow me to reconstruct the hierarchy by analysing all the records and/or m...

It works great! I am currently experimenting with it. Unfortunately, the Script Editor is not a very good IDE and the documentation for JXA is still abysmal. Feels quite immature as a technology. But holds great promise. Jon, if you're reading this - would you consider adding some more Apple events ...

Brilliant - thank you! I'll try it out as soon as I can...

Hi, thanks so much for the new "CloudSync" feature. This will be a much better solution than my current sync setup, using DropBox. However, I currently have the problem that after uploading the library, I constantly get an error message alert saying "CloudSync: BAD REQUEST - Record up...

Hi, Since Yosemite, OS X can be scripted with JavaScript in addition to AppleScript. However, very little documentation exists. I was trying to translate the AppleScript examples from the User Guide into JavaScript code, but got stuck. Has anyone an idea how return «event ToySSQLS» "authors REG...

Unfortunately, that doesn't work because the Mellel Find/Replace Feature does not treat References as normal text. That's unfortunate, because it will result in a lot of ugly citations ("Miller (Miller, 2009) says..."). It would be great if "Omit Author/Date only" could be implem...

I see. Too bad. That would be a good feature to have in the future.

I'll try to construct a regular expression to search/replace this pattern automatically then.

Hello, I am trying to have Mellel/Bookends format a citation like so: "Miller (2009) says..." instead of "Miller (Miller 2009) says ...". I have BibTeX citation delimiters enabled, so the tempory citation within the brackets is "Miller2009". I have tried both "%Mil...

Hi. I have the problem that I need to mix books and newspaper articles in the bibliography. The books need to get cited by year (e.g. Miller, 2004), whereas the newspaper articles need to include the exact date. Example (using German date format): Citation: As it was reported the next day (Süddeutsc...

Thanks Jon. You're right that I am probably abusing the BibTex citation key field for purposes for which it was not intended. I wish there were some standards for generating a unique, human-readable citation key automatically from the citation data that could be used and could eventually replace the...

Hi Jon, thanks for the quick reply - I know that, but it is not what I need. Author-year is not enough for my purposes, I would want to generate the key using a style, just like in the case of the attachment name. That was the reason for my feature request and would make my life a bit easier. But th...

I organize my citations and attachments in a way that citation key and attachment name can be computed from the citation data (in most cases: Last name of author dash year dash first word of title). I really like the feature that allows to generate the name of file attachments using a format. This s...

I already use DropBox for this (just put your library in your DropBox), and it works well, but as Jon says, this works only if you work on one computer, close the library, and then work on the other. If you change both, there'll be conflicting copies (At least DropBox doesn't simply discard the olde...

unAPI is a "tiny HTTP API for the few basic operations necessary to copy discrete, identified content from any kind of web application" used by applications like Zotero to import bibliographic data directly from websites. It is much more powerful than CoinS/OpenUrl and – unlike CoinS - su...