On Nov 8, 2014, at 15:06, Daniele Pontillo wrote:

> 
>> Il giorno 08/nov/2014, alle ore 14:58, Christiaan Hofman 
>> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 8, 2014, at 14:47, Daniele Pontillo wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>>> Il giorno 08/nov/2014, alle ore 12:18, Christiaan Hofman 
>>>> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Nov 8, 2014, at 7:51, Daniele Pontillo wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Il giorno 07/nov/2014, alle ore 23:21, Christiaan Hofman 
>>>>>> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Nov 7, 2014, at 19:12, Daniele Pontillo wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hello again to everyone.
>>>>>>> I’ll try to make myself understood
>>>>>>> My entries have a filed named Dropbox-URL that will NOT appear in my 
>>>>>>> HTML output, maybe because I should edit the default item template 
>>>>>>> (which is standard right now) and I don’t know how to do that.
>>>>>>> However, if I right-click on the sidebar and fill in “choose url” with 
>>>>>>> the shared linked from Dropbox, I get what I want.
>>>>>>> I guess there are two scenarios to solve the issue:
>>>>>>> 1. edit the default item template
>>>>>>> 2. create an applescript that would search for all the shared links of 
>>>>>>> my files in the dropbox folder and then add the link to the sidebar of 
>>>>>>> every entry.
>>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What is your question?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You apparently misspelled a few words, so I don;t know what you mean. 
>>>>>> And what is this Dropbox-URL? What is a "shared linked" or "shared 
>>>>>> links"? In particular, I don't know what you'd want to do in 2, I really 
>>>>>> don't think you want to add all links to all entries.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Christiaan
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sorry
>>>>> I have my entries in a specific bibliography
>>>>> I have a field called Dropbox-URL, which is a remote-url type custom field
>>>>> I want to fill it up with the shared link that dropbox creates for my pdf 
>>>>> files regarding that particular entry (my pdf paper files are stored in 
>>>>> dropbox)
>>>>> I want to see that remote-url custom field ti appear in my HTML output, 
>>>>> just as my local pdf files appear
>>>>> Hope that helps  
>>>>> <Senza titolo.jpg>
>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Have you tried the Database > "Convert File and URL Fields" feature? This 
>>>> will convert any file or URL field to a linked file or linked URL.
>>>> 
>>>> Christiaan
>>> 
>>> Really, I guess this wouldn’t be useful for me. 
>>> I filled my remote-URL field (called Dropbox-URL) with a link generated by 
>>> Dropbox but I cannot get it to appear in my HTML output
>>> If I use the “choose URL” option in the side panel, I get what I want.
>> 
>> And why wouldn't it be useful for you? You say you already have the URL in 
>> your custom field, and when it's in the linked URLs it appears in the HTML 
>> output. So why would transferring the custom field to the linked URLs not 
>> work for you? It does the same thing as using "choose URL".
>> 
>> Christiaan
>> 
> I apologize. Actually, it does the same thing as “choose URL”.
> Now, This is one part the problem.
> Is there any way to batch obtain my shared links from Dropbox for each pdf 
> file matching my entry, fill in the field and convert the field?. I guess 
> this is a bit off topic, though.


I don't know, as I don't know how your items are related to PDFs, nor how 
shared links are related to PDFs.

Christiaan

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