edited books

[jmckeown]

Many of the books I use are edited collections of essays, in other words, each chapter is by a different author. I have put some individual author-chapters in as separate items in Bookends. I also put in the overall book. Problem is I don't know how to make a link between these, minimally I just need to flag that an item is part of a book. Ideally I would like to only input the overall book details once and then have the entries for each essay, when a citation is generated, automatically pick up the information from its parent book's entry. I would expect a relational database to do that but I cannot work out how to set it up. Can anyone help?

regards,
John

[Reiner]

when I'm not wrong this is not possible with Bookends at the moment. But I also would appreciate it to be able to handle chapters of edited books like this.

But I think this feature was requested before.

[Jon]

You can't make relational entries. But there is a Replicate as Book Chapter to facilitate entry of chapters from an Edited Book. And of course you can always use Duplicate to make a copy of a chapter and then just change the fields that need it.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Reiner]

Hi Jon,

of course it is possible what you wrote, but this also shows, that the feature request of being able to make relational entries would be a very big advancement.