# Focus/Highlight Newly Imported Entry After Drag and Drop

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/focus-highlight-newly-imported-entry-after-drag-and-drop/8994>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [October 24, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/focus-highlight-newly-imported-entry-after-drag-and-drop/8994 "2025-10-24T14:06:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![PedramManouchehri](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/pedrammanouchehri/32/2458_2.png) [@PedramManouchehri](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/PedramManouchehri)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/focus-highlight-newly-imported-entry-after-drag-and-drop/8994/1 "2025-10-24T14:06:23Z")

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When I drag and drop a PDF into a large JabRef library, it’s difficult to find where the new entry has been added. It would be very helpful if JabRef automatically highlighted or scrolled to the newly created entry.

This is similar to how operating systems like Windows will highlight a file that has been moved or created in a folder. This feature would significantly improve the user experience, especially for those of us with large libraries. Thank you!

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Please vote if you support this proposal

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/focus-highlight-newly-imported-entry-after-drag-and-drop/8994/2 "2025-10-24T14:08:55Z")

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As new user you aren’t allowed to create polls so I created one.

I think this feature goes a bit into the direction of the Imported Entries Group

> <https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/12998>
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> Closes #12548
> This PR introduce feature to add new group "Imported Entries"
> \- …Introduce Smart Group 
> \- Create configurable field for "Imported entries" group (under web search preferences)
> \- Sync configuration with group-tree (for enable/disable or name-change of group)
> \- Configure entries (web search / PDF import /web fetchers) to be auto-import
> \- Add a few test cases 
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> \<img width="450" height="220" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e236418d-42de-447a-a734-28add1cb39b4" /\>
> \<img width="395" height="241" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f704d8db-abe8-406c-b7f0-f3a7634875df" /\>
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> \### Mandatory checks
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> \- \[x\] I own the copyright of the code submitted and I license it under the \[MIT license\](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/main/LICENSE)
> \- \[x\] Change in \`CHANGELOG.md\` described in a way that is understandable for the average user (if change is visible to the user)
> \- \[x\] Tests created for changes (if applicable)
> \- \[x\] Manually tested changed features in running JabRef (always required)
> \- \[x\] Screenshots added in PR description (if change is visible to the user)
> \- \[x\] \[Checked developer's documentation\](https://devdocs.jabref.org/): Is the information available and up to date? If not, I outlined it in this pull request.
> \- \[x\] \[Checked documentation\](https://docs.jabref.org/): Is the information available and up to date? If not, I created an issue at \<https://github.com/JabRef/user-documentation/issues\> or, even better, I submitted a pull request to the documentation repository.

_Poll ([view on site](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/focus-highlight-newly-imported-entry-after-drag-and-drop/8994/2))_

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**Author:** ![ThiloteE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/thilotee/32/1008_2.png) [@ThiloteE](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/ThiloteE)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/focus-highlight-newly-imported-entry-after-drag-and-drop/8994/3 "2025-10-28T18:25:18Z")

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This might actually be better than an Imported Entries group, but who knows. Maybe we should make this a preference (if technically possible, as I can imagine that it depends on the capabilities of our GUI framework JavaFX).