Toggle buttons?

michellej
I'd really like to have some easier way of selecting the various works that I'd like to include in my bibliography. Right now I have to right click them (or, on my mac, option-click) and it's a pain to do this for really long bibliographies... (The joy of working on a dissertation -- bibliographies that are a couple hundred sources long!) The present way of selecting the sources is especially bothersome because there are times when I'm selecting the works that I need to include in a bibliography only to forget to hold down the 'option' key, thereby disselecting all of the works that I'd previously selected to be included in the bibliography. Part of this is definitely forgetfulness on my part, but having something like toggle buttons next to each entry would make it much easier to select those works that I'd like to include in my bibliographies without worrying about making one mistake and disselecting all of my previous selections.
  • dstillman
    Why not just create a temporary collection to hold the entries for your bibliography, the same way that you'd use a temporary playlist to burn a CD in iTunes?

    Drag each item you want in your bibliography to the collection (individually if you want, not worrying about holding down keys to select multiple items), and then right-click the collection and select "Create Bibliography From Collection...".

    In the next beta you'll be able to hold down Option to see which collections the currently selected items appear in, which will make it even easier to keep track of what you've copied so far (though adding an item to a collection multiple times has no effect).
  • padilla12
    I'd also like to see if there's any way of having toggle buttons that get rid of blank entries.

    Cordially,
    Victor Padilla
  • erazlogo
    michellej--to add to dan's suggestion--you may also want to try this: tag all the works that will go into your dissertation bibliography with something like "diss", then create a saved search on this tag, then use "Create Bibliography From Collection..." This way you don't have to worry about accidentally deleting a source from your "bibliography" collection and you will be able to delete and recreate this collection as many times as necessary.
  • dstillman
    I'd also like to see if there's any way of having toggle buttons that get rid of blank entries.
    I'm not clear on what you're suggesting here. Could you elaborate?
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