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Posted: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:19:33 -0500
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So, does this mean that one reference cannot belong to more than one
group in Procite? If so, than endnote has the edge in this regard, it
would seem.
allie
"Smith" wrote:
> My apologies for this reaching the entire group, but I can't see your
> individual e-mail address...
> We used the groups feature in ProCite quite heavily ... particularly
> good if the entire database is "the book" and the groups are "the
> chapters". Then you could use the search capability to find
specifics.
> The downfall was not being able to eliminate duplicates since one
> record may effectively fall into more than one group. This made the
> database grow in size quite quickly. As the numbers increased, we
> were forced to simply create a collection of databases. At the
> outstart, however, when the numbers were smaller, groups were an
invaluable trait.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "listmaster"
> "mailto:listmaster" On Behalf Of
> "Alexander.Shenkin"
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:08 PM
> To: "Endnote-Interest"
> Subject: Re: Combining all libraries & using groups?
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> So, how good is the grouping function in procite? I've never used it
> before, and searching for screenshots and the like on the web came up
> empty. I suppose I could download a demo, but I hate to muck up my
> newly re-installed OS with more junk that never gets uninstalled
> properly. Are there any major downsides to using procite instead of
> endnote? I saw the comparison chart and nothing seemed to be a
> deal-breaker.
>
> Also, it sounds like ISI should merge their endnote, procite and
> reference manager product lines, eh? Hard to see the point of having
> 3 semi-functional products out there, when they could have one fully
> functional one...
>
> allie
>
> "dharv" wrote:
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>> At 12:57 PM -0500 25/1/08, Lars.Bauer "lars.bauer"
wrote:
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>>> Personally, I wouldn't do that. In my opinion, custom groups are
>>> good
>>>
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>>> for quickly organizing your references on screen, but that's it.
>>> Besides the fact that you can't organize them in a tree structure,
>>> there is, for example, no search functionality (neither can you run
>>> and/or searches by
>>> (shift/alt-) clicking several groups nor can you include your groups
>>> in
>>>
>>>
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>>> the search window). Furthermore, you can't include custom groups in
>>> subject bibliographies. Accordingly, there is no possibility to
>>> print/export references from more than one group at once. Finally,
>>> I'm not sure if the feature is now bug-free: before patch X1.0.1
>>> EndNote suddenly didn't show any references in two of my 25 groups
>>> (this didn't
>>>
>>>
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>>> occur again since I've installed the patch, though).
>>>
>>>
>> Not sure what you mean by "include custom groups in subject
>> bibliographies", why you want to organize groups in a tree structure,
>> but apart from that the functionality you want is implemented in
>> ProCite.
>> --
>> David Harvey
>> 60 Gipps Street
>> Drummoyne NSW 2047
>> Australia
>> Tel: 61-2-9719-9170
>>
>>
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