Jabref: "New entry from plain text..." shows the same dialog as "New entry..."

[duelle]

JabRef version
JabRef 3.8.1
linux 4.9.6-1-arch amd64
Java 1.8.0_121

Steps to reproduce

1. Open: BibTeX -> "New entry from plain text..."
2. Same dialog as "New entry..." appears.

I was looking for a way to directly insert a bibtex entry from the clipboard into JabRef and found the "New entry from plain text..." option but it seems to behave similar to the "New entry..." option.
In both cases the dialog for selecting the type of bibtex key appears.

Is this behavior intended or may this be some kind of bug?

[koppor]

Please select an entry type

Am 27.01.2017 17:10 schrieb "Thomas F. Duellmann" <[email protected]

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JabRef version
JabRef 3.8.1
linux 4.9.6-1-arch amd64
Java 1.8.0_121

Steps to reproduce

1. Open: BibTeX -> "New entry from plain text..."
2. Same menu as "New entry..." appears.

I was looking for a way to directly insert a bibtex entry from the
clipboard into JabRef and found the "New entry from plain text..." option
but it seems to behave similar to the "New entry..." option.
In both cases the dialog for selecting the type of bibtex key appears.

Is this behavior intended or may this be some kind of bug?

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[tobiasdiez]

But this behavior is indeed a bit confusing...
Proposal for improvement:

• Always create articles by default in both dialogs (or make the default customizable?)
• Provide facility to easily change entry type in entry editor (i.e. drop-down box)

-> Less clicks necessary to create a new entry and this overwhelming dialog with (gefühlt) 100 different entry types is no longer needed.

[koppor]

Entry type can already be changed. Click in the type...

[duelle]

Ok, I didn't expect that to be a different dialog..
I would have expected just an empty text field to paste the bibtex key into without that type selection step in between.
That's why I thought it would be the same dialog.

Is the selection of the type necessary?
Before I found that option I always just created a random type in the "New entry..." dialog and pasted the text from the clipboard in the BibTeX source tab. And it did not matter whether the type I previously chose was the correct one or not.

[Siedlerchr]

@duelle The easiest option to paste a bibtex entry from the clipboard is just by doing STRG+V in the maintable. Then the entry is directly created. I do this all the time. Very handy feature

[duelle]

@Siedlerchr Interesting, thank you for the hint! Didn't know of that feature.

[lenhard]

As far as I understand, the problem has been solved by clarifying the intended functionality. Hence, I am closing

[koppor]

Regarding the dialog, we added two new issues https://github.com/koppor/jabref/issues/225 and https://github.com/koppor/jabref/issues/226 to improve the UI.

[koppor]

Yes, the selection of the type is necessary as the plain text import cannot know which type it is and we wanted to have the entry be correct.

Maybe, we should use "misc" as type and let the user change it afterwards?