Some notes on BE 12.8.1

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Dellu
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Some notes on BE 12.8.1

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A) Notes:

page 350 of the user guide needs to be updated:

The field varCharField is no more functional.

1) Locate('Anonymous', varCharField) > 0 is no more working to find attachments with the file name ‘Anonymous’.

Replacement: attachments REGEX ‘Anonymous’ :

2) varCharField REGEX '[^0-9\t]' failed to filter references with attachments.

Replacement: attachments REGEX '[^0-9\t]' works fine.

3) NOT varCharField REGEX '[^0-9\t]' failed
Replacement: attachments IS NULL


B) issues:

1) varCharField > 1 used to collect references containing more than 1 attachments. Now, it is failing. A replacement like attachments > 1 also doesn’t work. is there any other means to collect references with orphaned (multiple) attachments?

2) Copying and Pasting Smart groups is crashing BE now.
Mencu
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Re: Some notes on BE 12.8.1

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Selecting, dragging and dropping any reference between two libraries crashes Bookends, at least in my wife's mac and in mine.
The normal way of exporting and importing works fine.
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Re: Some notes on BE 12.8.1

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1. The User Guide has been updated, and has more examples.

2. The correct search to find references with attachments is

attachments <> ''

3. A better SQL search for a particular PDF is this (it can be made even more foolproof by adding beginning/end of line instructions, but that is usually overkill):

attachments REGEX '(?mi)my attachment name'

4. To find a reference with more than one attachment

attachments REGEX '\n'

5. Copy/paste smart folder crash has been fixed.

6. @Mencu -- Drag and drop transfer of refs crash has been fixed.

Please download 12.8.1 again.

Jon
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Mencu
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Re: Some notes on BE 12.8.1

Post by Mencu »

Now it works again smoothly as usual, thanks!!!
Dellu
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Re: Some notes on BE 12.8.1

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Thank you.
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