Converting "individual" author names to "institution / organisation" names
Mark Goodfellow
I'm having difficulty converting individual author names to institution / organisation names.
E.g. in the UK in health a lot of documents are produced by organisations such as Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
When you type in the names to Papers it will see them as individuals and split the name as it sees fit, however when you go to edit that when you change the author type to 'represent institution/organisation' the field names below are changed. However the contents of the previous fields are not removed so they still persist in the name that will appear to the article.
The work around is to remove all data but the 'last' name, then chnage the author type to 'institution/organisation' then change the name on there.
This is messy.
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Support Staff 2 Posted by charles on 09 Mar, 2011 12:50 AM
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Support Staff 3 Posted by charles on 08 Apr, 2011 07:00 AM
Thanks for the feedback, and sorry about the issue with name editing. We hope to have improved things significantly in Papers 2.
Best wishes,
Charles
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4 Posted by Cedric Teyssie on 08 Apr, 2011 09:06 AM
The issue is still active for me.
Even with the procedure above, each time I restart Papers, I have to do it again.
Support Staff 5 Posted by charles on 08 Apr, 2011 09:20 PM
Sorry I had assumed that was a report for Papers1. We'll look into the name editing more carefully for this case. Many thanks for your feedback!
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6 Posted by Mark Goodfellow on 09 Apr, 2011 12:52 AM
Nope. It's version 2. The whole author naming is a pain in the arse with papers 2.
Ideally you'd have a linked list of authors displayed and it would match on those authors as you typed.
The whole mess would be mitigated if you could merge authors - but you can't :(
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Support Staff 7 Posted by charles on 09 Apr, 2011 01:28 AM
Hi Mark,
Indeed, author merging, and author autocompletion will be back in a future update. Thanks for the feedback, and sorry again for the inconvenience in the meantime.
Charles
8 Posted by Mark Goodfellow on 09 Apr, 2011 09:00 AM
It's not author auto completuon like in the 2.0.0 release I want - that was even more broke. I want to be presented with a list of authors and institutions that I can select from. Ideally in the same Pane - not the pop up one that exists at present. Or if you want to keep the pop out one, at least make it navigable with keyboard - it's no fun importing around 20 documents each week.
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Support Staff 9 Posted by charles on 16 Apr, 2011 04:28 AM
I am not sure how that differs from autocompletion?
Are you not able to get the list of author from a repository? An alternative is also to copy all the authors string from the PDF, and then past the whole thing, it will parse the string to create all the authors at once.
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10 Posted by Mark Goodfellow on 16 Apr, 2011 09:06 AM
Autocomplete attempts to complete the author name from what I type. If I don't like it then I'm stuck, or I correct it and it changes it back.
When given a list I am explicitly telling the software what authors I want.
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Support Staff 11 Posted by mek on 16 Apr, 2011 04:57 PM
It's on the roadmap, see: https://mekentosj.tenderapp.com/kb/roadmap/papers-for-mac-roadmap
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