Re: NB SWS duplicate Ibidem record problem

[Karla Huebner <karlahuebner () compuserve ! com>]

I do this kind of copying all the time, but in a somewhat different 
manner (if I'm reading you correctly), namely that I create the 
Ibidem entries first and THEN go back to create the note files.

I've found that you don't want to copy an entry with an associated 
note file because then both entries get the same note file and I feel 
a little nervous deleting the link from the copied entry.

I don't know why the copying is not working for you. But... I have 
found that in Beta Z the new record function is mischievous. Most of 
the time the new record appears at the bottom of the list while the 
user is taken to the top of the list instead. The first few times 
this happened it just about made me crazy because I thought it wasn't 
creating the new record. Perhaps this is what's happening?

Karla Huebner


At 10:39 PM 3/29/2006, you wrote:
> Hello, fellow NBers.  Can anyone suggest the solution to the 
> following problem with Ibidem in the latest SWS beta?
>
> I am taking notes, essay by essay, on a series of essays included 
> within a single special edition of a journal and, being naturally 
> lazy, am trying to create note-taking files and their record links 
> by duplicating and then editing the Ibidem entry I created for the 
> first essay in the series and then hitting either the record link 
> icon or Ctrl-Shift-Q.  Ibidem does not want to comply.  It does not 
> want to create either link or note-taking file for the new 
> (duplicated, edited) entry.  Late last night I managed by a lot of 
> bumbling around to induce it to work just once, but I can't remember 
> what worked (accident?  persistence?), and now it won't do it at 
> all.  I can't tell whether the function is three quarters broken or 
> whether I am overlooking the magic step I happened upon last night.
>
> Have others encountered this problem?  Does anyone have any advice?
>
>    Susan Eilenberg