Welcome
Thank you for your interest in LifeDesks. These help pages are designed to assist you in making the most out of your site. Here you will find quick start guides, detailed instructions, best practices and philosophies behind the tools provided.
You will find written documentation, screen shots, screen casts and other means of instructing, guiding and assisting you with your site. In turn, you may assist other LifeDesk users by alerting us of bugs or by suggesting improvements at feedback.
A quickstart guide for new users
Wed, 05/06/2009 - 23:06 — Walley, LisaThe following quickstart guide assumes you are a site member or administrator with permissions to modify content and/or settings in your LifeDesk. If you are not a member of a LifeDesk you can create your own, or contact existing site owners to request membership to their site.
Log in
If you have just created or joined a LifeDesk you should have received an email with instructions for logging in. After your initial log in any subsequent log ins can be carried out on the LifeDesk site's home page
Importing bibliographies
Thu, 07/02/2009 - 17:21 — Walley, LisaTruncation issues
- The title field is limited to 255 characters. If a bibliographic item in your import file has a title that exceeds 255 characters, this title will be truncated on import.
- Importing EndNote XML files:
- If you have font styles (such as italics in your title field) then data may be truncated on import. A solution is on it's way but, if you are using font styles in your titles you may wish to wait until the fix has been implemented before attempting to import the file.