taja

@taja Hi - sorry for taking a while. I replaced the script in my copy of 1.2.7 with the one you just provided and it works!

@iandol Hi - just tested beall and betitle on 1.2.7 and it works *except* when I search for one term that should return a very large number of results (for reference, when I type it into search field in Bookends it returns nearly 3000 results). Neither beall nor betitle return any results when searching for it. I don't know if the problem relates to the sheer number of results. This might be a bit of an edge case, because beall works fine in all other cases, e.g.:

2018-07-12 09:46:21][trigger.hotkey] Processing output of 'input.scriptfilter' with arg ''
[2018-07-12 09:46:23][input.scriptfilter] Queuing argument 'adcock'
[2018-07-12 09:46:24][input.scriptfilter] Script with argument 'adcock' finished
[2018-07-12 09:46:24][input.scriptfilter] {"comment":"NAMES=adcock | YEAR= | SQL=(allFields REGEX '(?i)adcock')","items":[{"uid":"9203","arg":"9203","title":"Unknown  (2007)","subtitle":"Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges Since 1880","icon":{"path":"file.png"}},{"uid":"86192","arg":"86192","title":"Adcock R  (2007)","subtitle":"Interpreting Behaviouralism","icon":{"path":"file.png"}},{"uid":"57741","arg":"57741","title":"Adcock R & Bevir M  (2007)","subtitle":"The Remaking of Political Theory","icon":{"path":"file.png"}},{"uid":"24715","arg":"24715","title":"Ball T  (2007)","subtitle":"An Ambivalent Alliance: Political Science and American Democracy","icon":{"path":"file.png"}}],"length":4}

However, when I search for a term that should yield a very very high number of results:

beall:

[2018-07-12 09:33:59][ERROR: input.scriptfilter] Code 1: /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesAll.rb:216:in `processAuthor': undefined method `chomp' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesAll.rb:199:in `parseAuthors'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesAll.rb:85:in `block in getRecords'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesAll.rb:81:in `each'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesAll.rb:81:in `each_with_index'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesAll.rb:81:in `getRecords'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesAll.rb:228:in `doSearch'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesAll.rb:255:in `<main>'

betitle:

[2018-07-12 09:41:51][ERROR: input.scriptfilter] Code 1: /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesTitle.rb:216:in `processAuthor': undefined method `chomp' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesTitle.rb:199:in `parseAuthors'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesTitle.rb:85:in `block in getRecords'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesTitle.rb:81:in `each'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesTitle.rb:81:in `each_with_index'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesTitle.rb:81:in `getRecords'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesTitle.rb:228:in `doSearch'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5761D1A7-6E32-41AB-9C99-22930F789ECE/findReferencesTitle.rb:255:in `<main>'

@iandol I'm afraid I get another error with 1.2.6 when using beall. Here's what ocmes up:

[2018-07-11 17:02:06][ERROR: input.scriptfilter] Code 1: /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:215:in `processAuthor': undefined method `chomp' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:198:in `parseAuthors'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:85:in `block in getRecords'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:81:in `each'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:81:in `each_with_index'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:81:in `getRecords'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:227:in `doSearch'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:254:in `<main>'
[2018-07-11 17:02:07][ERROR: input.scriptfilter] Code 1: /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:215:in `processAuthor': undefined method `chomp' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:198:in `parseAuthors'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:85:in `block in getRecords'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:81:in `each'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:81:in `each_with_index'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:81:in `getRecords'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:227:in `doSearch'
    from /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.16824124-417E-42A2-BC67-A5CA41BCFCAD/findReferencesAll.rb:254:in `<main>'

@iandol no fault about it!  And I'm very glad to know how easy it is to debug a workflow using Alfred. Thank you for fixing it so quickly!

Sorry - I'm quite new to Alfred. Here's what the workflow debugger threw up. Apologies if this isn't the right thing to be providing here, but this is what comes up  in the debugger (with 'interesting information' only selected) when I use (1) beall and (2) betitle.

(1)
Starting debug for 'Bookends Tools'

[2018-07-10 11:04:07][ERROR: input.scriptfilter] Code 1: /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.C38A9670-F1D2-4A70-9F49-35850C922B4F/findReferencesAll.rb:245:in `<main>': uninitialized constant FindReferences (NameError)
Did you mean?  FindReferencesAll

(2)
[2018-07-10 11:05:15][ERROR: input.scriptfilter] Code 1: /Users/Was/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.C38A9670-F1D2-4A70-9F49-35850C922B4F/findReferencesTitle.rb:245:in `<main>': uninitialized constant FindReferences (NameError)
Did you mean?  FindReferencesTitle

1.2.5 doesn’t work for me for some reason: searches don't come up with any results. Odd because 1.2.4 (which I have reverted to) works fine. Any thoughts on what might be happening?

Works great, thank you!

Thanks again for this fantastic tool. A request: at the moment you can go to the selected reference in Bookends from the results list, and then open its attachment using the relevant keyboard shortcut in Bookends. But would it be possible to open the reference attachment directly from the search results using a modifer key?

15 hours ago, iandol said:

I've released a beta version of the workflow with the new faster becite/betitle/bebib tools. I've added multiple author search and an option YEAR to refine the search. So for example [friston hobson 2014] will search for references with authors "Friston" AND "Hobson" published in 2014. If someone tries this can you please let me know if it works for you...

Works fantastically well, and faster!

@iandol Fantastic, works great, and thanks for the pointer about malformed dates, I've sorted that out now.

I've added my Powerpack email.

@iandol I have around 7000 references. I can only isolate one author, it turns out, for which the author search simply doesn’t work (i.e. returns no results). 'Arendt, Hannah', with no accents or diacritics. But I have a lot of references attached to her (she's the subject of a book I'm finishing): 290. I made a small test database with all those references, and with one reference from one other author, and the same problem occurs: here is the test DB: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b64xxbe5f8g2oel/Test.bdb?dl=0. When I remove say 200 of those references, the search works. So perhaps it's the sheer number of results returned that is the problem?

I'm afraid I don't have any terminal skills else I'd love to help with the other request.

The possibility of inputting the year to narrow the search further would be wonderful: I'm sorry I don't have any skills of use, but if there's any testing I could do please let me know.

iandol: these are fantastic, however using v.1.1.0 (the latest I think),  when doing a very few certain author and title searches that should return a lot of results (and do in Bookends live search) i get nothing at all. Any thoughts on what might be going wrong?