Sonny Software

Trying for better integration between BE and other software, I followed the instructions for embedding a link to a BE reference.

With Scrivener, this does work from the List View, with Command-Option drag. The other method -- dragging the unique ID from the reference window -- does not. The system simply thinks I am trying to drag the window around.

With Devonthink, neither method works. Ref view behaves as I just described; Command-Option drag from List View produced, in DT, just plain text -- no link.

Is there a preference in BE or in System Prefs that I need to change? I suspect that something is interfering with expected behavior. I'd love to know what I am doing wrong here.

System 10.4.11 running on a Macbook Core 2 Duo, latest versions of BE, DT, Scrivener.

Thanks!

David

Hi,

If you click and drag the unique ID in the reference window (which is to the right of the label "ID#"), you'll drag the hypertext link. I just tried this with TextEdit and it worked. Please make sure you're dragging the right thing (not the title bar of the reference window).

Jon
Sonny Software

If you click and drag the unique ID in the reference window (which is to the right of the label "ID#"), you'll drag the hypertext link. I just tried this with TextEdit and it worked

And it's working for me with Scrivener (I'm using the latest versions of Bookends and Scrivener, although I don't think that makes a difference).

I tried with DTP 1.5. New database. New RTF. Drag and drop unique id from Bookends reference window -> hypertext link was inserted.

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon wrote:I tried with DTP 1.5. New database. New RTF. Drag and drop unique id from Bookends reference window -> hypertext link was inserted.

Jon
Sonny Software

Not working for me. When I drag the unique ID I get plain text in curly brackets; when I do option-command-drag I get plain text, no curly brackets.

This happens in (1) an attempt to drag into a plain text file (2) drag into a list of files (ie, creating a new text that contains the dragged link) and (3) drag into an RTF file.

Obviously 3 is the important one. If DT is assuming the dropped text is plain text, it won't make a link. But it does not work even when the target doc in DT is RTF.

Problem persists after permissions fix and restart. As I mentioned, the procedure works fine in Scrivener.

If no one else is having this problem with DTPro, I guess it's some peculiarity in my set up.

David