I have always made extensive use of the “Copy item link” and “Copy page link” feature – specifically by pasting them into Scrivener, to allow me to access those PDFs quickly, when needed.
IIRC, in all prior versions to DT3beta2 – when pasting either the Page or Item link, the full name of the filename used to be included in the link – in my case, DB_Author_Title_Year.
I’ve just noticed – therefore I presume this is something that changed in Beta2(?) – that when pasting the “page” link, all that is now shown is “Page 3” / “Page 10” / “Page 25”, with the full name only appearing again when the “item” link is pasted?
Is this the expected behaviour? And if so – did it change in Beta2 – and if so - can we have it changed back?
Seeing the fullname of the item is significantly more useful, than simply seeing a ‘page-number’ in the link – as the latter offers zero insight into ‘which’ file that pertains to…
It’s a bug, beta 3 will fix this.
Fantastic - that is good to hear!
Seeing the fullname of the item is significantly more useful, than simply seeing a ‘page-number’ in the link – as the latter offers zero insight into ‘which’ file that pertains to…
Unless the page numbers were gathered under a common header of the document’s title…
My Great Book by Jim
Page 2
Page 14
…
Just saying.
True – but when one is quickly dumping ‘hits’ from a search inside DT3, over into a document in Scrivener – as in
"Look here for commentary on points A/B/C >>
Item link to PDF to 1;
Page Link to PDF 2;
(different) Page Link to PDF 2;
Page Link to PDF 5;
...
Item Link to PDF 21;
Item Link PDF 34"
etc., then not having to type in the details of the reference to a particular file before dropping in the link (because its in the link already), is very useful.
Again, proving we all don’t necessarily think the same or do the same things
Which reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect
(the actual link cribbed from another astute post on these forums)
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