Thank you very much Christiaan. 

==Tamer

Sent from my mobile, excuse the brevity and typos. 

> On May 17, 2023, at 9:37 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I will add a separate preference option to control whether to overwrite 
> existing cite keys.
> 
> Christiaan
> 
>> On 17 May 2023, at 05:04, M. Tamer Özsu via Bibdesk-users 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry, I missed that question from Christiaan. In my case, I autogenerate 
>> the cite key, but then want to prefix it with the abbreviation of the name 
>> of the conference or journal where it appeared. The hacky way I do it is to 
>> open the .bib file after I autogenerate the cite key and just prepend the 
>> abbreviation. Then I import them into the master file. Old habit and it 
>> makes it easier to search for venues.
>> 
>> I suppose I could revise the “add keyword” script to do this all within 
>> BibDesk - but I don’t know how to refer to the cite key. Hence the hacky 
>> workflow.
>> 
>> ==Tamer
>> 
>>>> On May 16, 2023, at 10:57 PM, Adam R. Maxwell via Bibdesk-users 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On May 16, 2023, at 15:12 , Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Just wondering, why would you not want to auto-generate the cite key when 
>>>> adding?
>>> 
>>> If you have a master .bib file and create smaller ones as needed by 
>>> project/report/topic/etc, it makes sense that you'd want the same citekeys 
>>> in both files. At least, I think that was the rationale for not generating 
>>> a new citekey for an item when copying/dragging (unless it had empty or 
>>> default citekey)?
>>> 
>>> -- adam
>>> 
> 
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