Hello all,
I am new to Biblioscape - and have some legacy data I want to get in. For example a word processing document of notes on a book arranged in paragraphs, each starting with the page number, which I want to import as separate notes ie: one per page. I started by doing a global replace in MS Word to change the paragraph markers to tabs, then saved as plain text. Then opened in Excel as delimited file with records separated by tabs. This worked well ie; one row per record. Then I inserted a column with a formuia to return page numbers via the formula =left(A2,3). Then inserted another column and put in a formula for the note title in the format name of book, page no. All this I saved first as a csv to get rid of formulas, then opened again and saved as .xls. In Biblioscape File-import, spreadsheet - went through the wizard with apparently no problem, allocating the spreadhseet columns to the target fields - the preview looked good but pressed Execute and nothing happened! No error message, but nothing imported. I have tried this a number of times but no luck. I am hoping I can get this working because I have dozens of these things I would like to get in! Any ideas?
Evan
Follow-up (importing notes by Excel)
Sorry to bother you all, have solved my own problem. It appears you can't import punctuation marks eg commas into the Notes Title field - imported beautifully when I removed those. Incidentally, does anybody know how to add temporary citations to a large number of notes? ie I now have 177 notes on a particualr book - even though I have (globally) linked them to the reference, they don't show as linked notes when I open the reference unless there is a citation. At the moment I can't see any alternative to doing a Ctl-T, Ctl-v manually in each, though there are bigger problems I guess.
Cheers, Evan
If you just want to add a
If you just want to add a link, you can select all those notes and go to "Create Link | Link to References". Then select a reference and click "Add Link".