I've tried that but it gives me the error
Error: -1700. BibDesk got an error: Can’t make booktitle of publication id
"bdskidentifier://963110B0-6514-4605-A1CC-E565816F1515" of document "*
Bibliography *" into type specifier.

Jan

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Just edit a copy of the AppleScript, replacing Title with Booktitle.
>
> Christiaan
>
> On Oct 15, 2015, at 18:15, Jan David Hauck <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Christiaan, thanks so much!  That's perfect!  Does exactly what I needed!
>
> Now I have one more question:  Is there a way to trigger the same script
> for "Booktitle fields?"
> For incollections that inherit that from a crossref it's obviously changed
> but I have some incollections that are not crossref'd so there I'd need to
> update the booktitle field in an extra step.
>
> Thanks a ton!
>
> Jan
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I don’t know what happened, I am sure I added that function, and
>> the support for it is in it. I have fixed that now, you can re-downlaod
>> them and it should really be there.
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>>
>> On Oct 15, 2015, at 6:26, Jan David Hauck <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Christiaan,
>>
>> Thanks so much for taking the time to do this!
>> But it seems you didn't update the “Capitalize" script library on the
>> website?  I re-downloaded the "allscripts" folder but the Capitalize script
>> contained there doesn't have that capitalizeOrProtect that you mention.  Or
>> am I missing something?
>>
>> Jan
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 14, 2015, at 15:13, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 14, 2015, at 14:17, Jan David Hauck <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I have a (hopfully) quick question regarding fixing titles for some of
>>> my BibDesk entries:
>>> When I started using BibDesk I hadn't figured out yet the best way to
>>> store my titles and I would like to now fix it.
>>>
>>> And I want to make sure that I don't mess it up this time, so if I could
>>> get some feedback from some of the more savvy folks out there, if what I
>>> thought doing actually works, I'd highly appreciate it.
>>>
>>> So I used to store them in Sentence case with the exception of the Words
>>> that should always be capitalized.  For example:
>>> The crystal forest: Notes on the ontology of Amazonian spirits
>>>
>>> However, based on some recommendations out there, I have sinced changed
>>> to storing them like this in Title case with always capitalized words
>>> protected:
>>> The Crystal Forest: Notes on the Ontology of {Amazonian} Spirits
>>>
>>> Now, depending on the bib style I use, I can either keep the
>>> capitalization or convert it to Sentence case but without  losing the
>>> capitalization for names etc.
>>>
>>> Now I'd like to fix my first half of entries so that they resemble this
>>> pattern.
>>> Hence I thought running a script that adds braces around already
>>> capitalized words (except beginning of line, and after full stop or colon)
>>> and then running one of the capitalize to sentence case scripts.  Would
>>> that work?  And if so how?
>>>
>>> I tried the "Protect titles" script and the "Add Protect string" but
>>> couldn't really figure out how to get them to work the way I want.  Any
>>> help is greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jan
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, that could basically work. To get an idea on how to write that
>>> script you may have a look at my capitalization scripts on the Wiki (you
>>> seem to already have found them), like the Capitalize.scpt. Unfortunately
>>> what you want is not directly supported by those script. I attached a
>>> modified version that was sent to me by another user that I think does do
>>> what you want. The Protect scripts don’t really do what you want. They are
>>> based on building and using a list of words you always want to put braces
>>> around, which is not the thing you want to do.
>>>
>>> Christiaan
>>>
>>> <Capitalize.scpt>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have updated my scripts on the Wiki. The “Capitalize" script library
>>> now contains a function capitalizeOrProtect that should do what you want.
>>> the new script "Capitalize and Auto Protect Titles” uses that, and should
>>> do exactly what you want.
>>>
>>> Christiaan
>>>
>>
>>
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