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Allow keeping empty field in MultiMergeEntries dialog #15014

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JabRef has a multie merge dialog

  1. Start JabRef
  2. "New example library"
  3. Go to "Garcia_2018"
  4. Trigger "Update ... via entry data"
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  5. See the entry dialog
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See "Original Entry". One cannot select the empty field there.

Now, for demonstration purposes.

  1. Remove ISSN
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  2. Click on "Get bibliographic data from doi"
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  3. See Merge Entries dialog appearing
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  4. Click on the empty ISSN field
  5. See that this works

Task

  • Port this functionality to org.jabref.gui.mergeentries.multiwaymerge
  • Create docs/requriements/merge-entries.md and add keeping an empty field as requirement
  • Link the requirement of the last step to the most important point of your implementation.

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The styling issue is #15015

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