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Re: Clear marks -> records are only marked on
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Author: Sarah Cage
Posted: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:05:00 -0800
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Robert - I didn't think you were marking all retrieved references. I
also do a search, and mark the important references, to print or do some
other changes to them. I often repeat this for different groups for
different purposes in one editing session. If you then made global
changes to "all marked references", this would presumably change all the
marked references in the whole database (mine has over 50,000
references). So you would have to remember to "clear all marks" after
each search - which comes to a similar irritation to your having to
clear temporary editing in the User Def field at the end of a series of
searches. My impression of "marks" is that they are intended to be
temporary for the searched references for the duration of a search,
which I find more useful.
Another advantage of a temporary edit after marking references - if
there is a database problem (I regularly have RM decide to crash - at
least once or twice a week), or a power cut - or get called away - the
marks will not be lost.
I suppose one point of marking references in the master database
temporarily is so that when your retrieve them with a slightly different
search, you would be able to see immediately which ones you had
retrieved from a previous search.However this would still be the case
for a temporary edit.
In conclusion - I'd prefer the marks to only remain for the duration of
the sub-set, rather than remaining on the master database until
specifically cleared!
Sarah Cage
Senior Scientific Information Specialist National Poisons Information
Service Birmingham, UK
email "s.cage"
----- Original Message -----
From: ""Robert.Pale???????????????????" <"Robert.Pale???????????????????
To: "RIS-List"
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 1:50 AM
Subject: Re: <RefMan> Clear marks -> records are only marked on
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> To the prior two posts - I have created reference indices and added
> references to them. That is too permanent a "mark", and would require
> making a new index for every temporary list. Too time-consuming for a
> short-lived list.
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> I could also do global edits of a special user field. And then have
to
> do a second global edit to clear the user field. Again, that just
> recapitulates
> the mark/clear marks function.
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> To Sarah's remark, I think you also misunderstood. I don't want all
> retrieved references to be marked in the main database. But having a
> mark a record in a retrieved list, I would like it marked in the main
> database it came from. In neither case is the mark intended to be a
> permanent change.
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> Would it make sense to you if you edited a reference in the retrieved
> window, and the change was not mirrored in the main database? In the
> same sense I expect a marked box to be mirrored between the two.
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> For your global edits of marked references, as you begin start another
> session of marking, you must have to clear all marks.
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