Comments on: Mendeley Desktop 1.6 Preview

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:52:04 +0000

Hello David,

The options appear in the dialog box only when a citation is selected in the edit field.

By: David

David — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:21:45 +0000

Very pleased to see that you can now suppress author etc with the citation editor…except it doesn’t seem to be working for me yet! I’ve downloaded v1.6, uninstalled and reinstalled the Word plug-in (just in case) but I’m still getting the old dialogue box without the new options. Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong? (I’m using Windows, if that makes a difference.)

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:21:28 +0000

Hi Rob and osm,

I also find that the full-screen mode in OSX is not very useful without being able to access tabs. Will we have to wait for the next software update to be able to use this feature?

Thanks very much.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 06:36:00 +0000

Hello osm,

This isn’t so much a design choice but rather something that just hasn’t been implemented yet.

By: William

William — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 01:24:36 +0000

We’ve now released the new version: http://blog.mendeley.com/progress-update/mendeley-desktop-1-6-released/

By: osm

osm — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:28:26 +0000

The tabs are missing when in full screen app mode on a Mac. Because tabbed browsing works in full-screen app mode in web browsers (e.g. Safari and Chrome), I presume this is a choice you have made rather than design limitation of OS X full screen app mode. I think that’s a bad choice. Without access to the tabs, I won’t find the full-screen mode useful.

By: outa

outa — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:45:31 +0000

Is there some place where we can suggest improvements and bug fixes? I like the software, but some things are rather unintuitive or could use enhancements.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:08:04 +0000

As much as I appreciate better compatibility with corporate network, I had hoped that 1.6 would also bring us improvements in export functionality. Mendeley has long-standing bugs with Bibtex and Endnote export – fixing those would really improve the workflow for me and many of my colleagues.

By: Bastien

Bastien — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:35:27 +0000

“The ability to suppress author names and add custom prefixes and suffixes for individual citations.”

Great feature and very helpful! Any plans on implementing a few more variations on this feature? ie. “Suppress year”, or provide the option to change the format from “(Author Year)” to “Author (Year)” ?

Thanks for the great work!

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:50:06 +0000

Hello Russell,

> Is the ‘My publications’ folder now able to be synced as a bibtex file?

Not directly, but if you enable BibTeX sync in ‘file per folder’ mode you can create another folder for your publications. If you then periodically drag and drop the contents of the My Publications folder to that one, it will create an up-to-date BibTeX file.

> Is there an estimated date when this will be released?

The final release should come later this month. The preview releases are updated about once a week. I don’t expect any dramatic changes from the current preview to the final release.