Update existing entry

Bug #1055276 reported by Ryo IGARASHI
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
jabref-ads
Confirmed
Medium
Ryo IGARASHI

Bug Description

Update existing entry in the database to the ADS one. Overwrite/Merge option should be provided.

Ryo IGARASHI (rigarash)
Changed in jabref-ads:
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → 1.0
assignee: nobody → Ryo IGARASHI (rigarash)
status: New → Confirmed
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koppor (olly) wrote :

This should be a general feature of JabRef, not a feature specific to a given fetcher.
This is already filed as feature request for JabRef: https://sourceforge.net/p/jabref/feature-requests/689/

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Fabio (fabio-altomare) wrote : Re: [Bug 1055276] Re: Update existing entry

I agree, but not all databases works for everybody. For example SPIRES
does not work for me while ADS does. For somebody in high energy
physics the situation could be the opposite.
Unless there is a mechanism that works for everybody, havng it in the
fetcher makes much more sense
Fabio

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 8:19 AM, koppor <email address hidden> wrote:
> This should be a general feature of JabRef, not a feature specific to a given fetcher.
> This is already filed as feature request for JabRef: https://sourceforge.net/p/jabref/feature-requests/689/
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1055276
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> Title:
> Update existing entry
>
> Status in JabRef plugin for fetching BibTeX entry from ADS:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Update existing entry in the database to the ADS one. Overwrite/Merge
> option should be provided.
>
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