Sonny Software

At present BE allows you to attach a file but a feature I would like to see is the ability to attach a folder.

Increasingly archives are allowing the use of digital cameras to make records of documents for academic purposes. An individual document might consist of several pages and thus would be several images, but in practice only one reference would be appropriate. It seems logical that these images could be put in a folder and the folder attached to the particular reference.

An alternative would be to print them as .PDFs and then concatenate them to form one file, but in my experience this is hit or miss and in any event the file size tends to be as large as a set of jpegs at medium quality.

Would this be possible and would it be useful to others?

Tacitus

Tacitus wrote:At present BE allows you to attach a file but a feature I would like to see is the ability to attach a folder............Would this be possible and would it be useful to others?

Tacitus

Answering my own question here )

Having played around a bit it is possible to group the jpegs in a folder and then attach them individually to a particular ref. However what I would like to see is a facility to open the file in the application that created it. I think this was possible in earlier versions of BE on OS8/9 but I can't see a pref to allow this in the current version.

Tacitus

In Bookends 8.1, this is the default behavior.

In earlier versions, open the attachment with the Shift key held down -- this will force Bookends to launch the creating application. Or double-click on the attachment file in Bookends once it has been opened.

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon wrote:In Bookends 8.1, this is the default behavior.

In earlier versions, open the attachment with the Shift key held down -- this will force Bookends to launch the creating application. Or double-click on the attachment file in Bookends once it has been opened.

Thanks Jon. I had worked out that you could do it with crtl-click which takes you to the original and do it from there. Good to know it will be default behaviour in 8.1

cheers,

Tacitus