Help with "Find in Library"

[Cassady]

Hello all,

I'm struggling with some basic aspects of the Search/Find functionality, and hoping someone can advise – I must be missing something obvious.

Three scenarios in particular:

A.) I want to search ONLY for a character [ – ] that might appear in the Book Title field of the Book Chapter reference type.

How do I do this?

When I select "Text" "characters" " – " and try and select the dropdown from the "All Fields" box, "Book Title" is not available?
Any way to add this to the dropdown list, alternatively, get BE to look there?

B.) After finishing a search where I have used all three or more conditionals in the Find pop-up, how do I "reset" things for a new search?

Currently, assume I have searched for:

1> Text Characters " – " "Title"
2> and Label is Blue
3> and Type is not Journal Article

Assume I have found what I want from the above.

I now want to start a new search, and I want to simply find: Text is "Bob" in Title >> how do I reset the other conditionals?
They don't appear to return to the default selection that they had, the 1st time I invoke Cmd+F?

C.) Is it just me, or is the "Live Search" shortcut working inconsistently?

I presume invoking Alt+Cmd+F, is supposed to take the focus/cursor up into the Live Search bar, top right?
When I select the option from within the menu, it does indeed do that. Invoking it from anywhere else in the app, appears to do nothing my side?

Anyone else experience that?

Hoping someone can help!

[Jon]

A) The popup populates with fields for your default reference Type (usually Journal Article). Book Title = Volume in this case.

B) You must do a Text -> Characters search (which you indicate you did below).

The search you have specified works for me (one you have told Bookends to search Volume).

Bookends remembers settings between searches -- this is a feature, not a bug. There is no "reset" button, you alter the settings manually.

C) It works for me (the library window must be in front of course). It's just a standard menu shortcut. Perhaps you have some other process on your Mac that is stealing these keystrokes?

Jon
Sonny Software

[Cassady]

A) The popup populates with fields for your default reference Type (usually Journal Article). Book Title = Volume in this case.

B) You must do a Text -> Characters search (which you indicate you did below).

The search you have specified works for me (one you have told Bookends to search Volume).

Bookends remembers settings between searches -- this is a feature, not a bug. There is no "reset" button, you alter the settings manually.

C) It works for me (the library window must be in front of course). It's just a standard menu shortcut. Perhaps you have some other process on your Mac that is stealing these keystrokes?

Jon
Sonny Software

A.) Thanks for clarifying.

B.) Thanks for clarifying.

C.) [As easy as it to set system wide shortcuts in OSX, wish they also made it easy to check if there are duplicate-assigned shortcuts that are interfering with one another!]

Thanks Jon – problem was my side... My Kanex BT keyboard appears to be playing up (with it always connected, I hardly ever use my MBP's keyboard)... When you said it was working your side, I tried to recreate a new system shortcut for it in Preferences – and it wouldn't recognise the key-press to generate the keyboard combination.

Doing the same on my MBP's keyboard, and it works as expected.

Live and learn. Thanks for the help.

[Cassady]

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Jon
Sonny Software

Jon – in the hopes that you are still around – is there a shortcut key that takes the focus back to the main window?

In other words >> Cmd+Alt+F to jump into the Live Search; type/paste entry >> is there a keyboard combo to then move the focus to the references that are the displayed, so that one can quickly use the keyboard cursor keys to select the relevant reference?

[Jon]

If the right pane is closed, tab will do it.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Cassady]

If the right pane is closed, tab will do it.

Jon
Sonny Software

Ah – right pane was the problem – thanks!

[Jon]

In the next update the tab will go to the reference list even if the right pane is open (unless the edit reference pane is open, in which case the tab goes to the Authors field).

Jon
Sonny Software

[Cassady]

In the next update the tab will go to the reference list even if the right pane is open (unless the edit reference pane is open, in which case the tab goes to the Authors field).

Jon
Sonny Software

That will be useful- many thanks.