Changing 'Attached file “some file”. Reference metadata not found online.'
This is sad, because it makes it hard to use this field in e.g., OpenURL Search queries. Unsurprisingly, Google fails to find items with that title, but it has a 100% success rate at finding
Thanks for the swift response. It is never garbage for me, because I use a particular process to create the file I'm importing. It would be extremely helpful to just leave it as the PDF, or at least let the user decide if the noisy statement is necessary.
The statement is useful because it appears in the column view and users can see immediately that the metadata wasn't imported. They can they perform an Autocomplete Paper if they want to get it. So it has a purpose and is put in the title field by design.
As I said, it's a matter of 30 seconds to remove that information from all your references, if present, with Global Change.
Alternatively: I know I can use <title>, <doi>, and <pmid> in OpenURL searches—is there a way to use filename or attachment name or something? What I'm hoping for is a way to use the attachment's info in OpenURL search quickly and easily, without having to copy and paste info from the file.
tell application "Bookends"
tell front library window
set selectedPubs to selected publication items
if selectedPubs is not {} then
set aPub to first item of selectedPubs
set publicationAttachments to attachment items of aPub
if publicationAttachments is not {} then
set theAttachment to first item of publicationAttachments
set attachmentName to name of theAttachment
set title of aPub to attachmentName
end if
end if
end tell
end tell
This makes me happy! It's a great example of why scriptability is so useful in a productivity app such as Bookends! It empowers users by giving them lots of flexibility to achieve custom or alternate solutions.