Sonny Software

Hello all,

I was very pleased when I stumbled across this feature – very useful, particularly with the Cmd+] shortcut, to quickly feed in several references as different chapters from one book.
I thought I understood it, but something unexpected is happening when I scan my completed document.

The Manual appears to suggest that this is for a "Edited Book, Book, or Conference Proceedings" – and by example, an "edited book's Title is placed in the book chapter's Book Title field".

I think I'm starting things incorrectly, in my replicating from an already-created "Book Chapter" reference? Could that be the problem?

What is happening this side, is the "Book Title" field is being automatically pulled-in from the "(chapter) Title" field of the initial reference, which appears to be throwing things?

When I manually delete the Book Title field, and leave it blank – the Formatted View appears to suggest all is well, but when I scan, I'm having unexpected results.

Anyone else trying this and managing to get it to work as expected?

Cassady wrote: I think I'm starting things incorrectly, in my replicating from an already-created "Book Chapter" reference? Could that be the problem?

Yes, that's the problem. This feature was really added for conversion from a Book or Edited Book. I'll either disable it for Book Chapters or implement it properly.

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon wrote:

Cassady wrote: I think I'm starting things incorrectly, in my replicating from an already-created "Book Chapter" reference? Could that be the problem?

Yes, that's the problem. This feature was really added for conversion from a Book or Edited Book. I'll either disable it for Book Chapters or implement it properly.

Jon
Sonny Software

Thanks Jon – if I could request it as a feature:

Certain books might have 10/15 chapters, written by different authors. Everything obviously remains the same, with the exception of the page numbers; Chapter title; short title of Chapter title; and, the Author.

What I was hoping would work, is where I complete the 1st entry as a Chapter in Book, manually. I then Replicate as Chapter from this entry.
Ideally, all would remain the same, seeing my only having to change the page numbers, Chapter title, Short title of Chapter [I created this under a User! field, to suit my needs – so not necessary] and Author.

This would save plenty of time. Of course – I could simply duplicate the original several times, and change the specific fields manually, which is what I will do now. But if it could be 'automated' as the others, that would be very useful.

Yes, it's already done. This fix will be in the next update.

Jon
Sonny Software