Feature request: History/Log file/viewer

[Cassady]

Hello all,

Curious to hear whether anyone else might find something like the suggested useful? Alternatively - is something like the requested already possible?

With the usual caveat of my not knowing nearly enough about programming, to gauge in any shape or form whether this is something "simple", I wonder if it would be possible to introduce a basic "log-file" of recent actions that have taken place in Bookends.

I realised today, purely through my own fault, that I accidentally deleted several citations/references, from my BE12 library. My 'bug' took the form of a KM macro, that suddenly no-longer works as it should. Where it was supposed to delete the entry in the search field, it skipped a step or two (timing problems), and instead deleted the reference selected in the library [the macro ended with a "return" command], which selected the pop-up menu warning, saying this cannot be undone. So literally in the blink of an eye, I [presumably] deleted a few, before I realised what was happening...

AFAIK, there is no way to check which files were so deleted? Could this be something that would be tracked by some sort of a "history/log" viewer, that runs in the background, 'recording' all recent file actions inside the library, including those silly/accidental deletes?

[Jon]

Recording all events, besides being difficult and time consuming to implement and having limited usefulness, such a thing would also impact function. My suggest for you is to go to your most recent backup. If that will be missing references you've added in the last day or so, I'd merge both the old and current db into one (a new, fresh, library), and then do a Remove Duplicates.

Details on how to merge two databases and given in our FAQ.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Cassady]

Recording all events, besides being difficult and time consuming to implement and having limited usefulness, such a thing would also impact function. My suggest for you is to go to your most recent backup. If that will be missing references you've added in the last day or so, I'd merge both the old and current db into one (a new, fresh, library), and then do a Remove Duplicates.

Details on how to merge two databases and given in our FAQ.

Jon
Sonny Software

Thanks Jon. Will do!