On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:19 PM, McCanna, Terran < tmcca...@georgialibraries.org> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> > - Although you're not working on the cataloging phase yet, catalogers > switch back and forth between the MARC view and the catalog view of a bib > record when creating it / working on it to make sure it will display > properly when patrons view it through the OPAC, so please keep that in mind. > > > Do we see this as materially different from having the MARC view open in > one browser tab and the catalog view open in another? > > <<<<<<<<< > > I'm going to say yes, but that may depend on how it's implemented. If I > were a cataloger working on a single bib record today in my staff client, I > can switch between MARC View / MARC Edit / OPAC View in the same tab and as > I make changes, those changes are immediately reflected. If I am working on > several bib records at once, I can keep them all straight because each > record is on a single tab no matter which way I'm viewing it. > > If I were using the MARC view in the web client and clicked a button to > view that record in the OPAC and it opened in a new tab, then clicked on > that OPAC view to switch to the MARC Edit view, would it open a third tab? > Or if I switched back to the MARC edit view to make a change and then > clicked on OPAC View again, would it then open another new tab? Or would I > have to switch to the tab I'd opened before and refresh it? Or would it > recognize that I'd already opened that tab and switch to it and refresh it? > See where I'm going with this? It seems like it would be easy for both the > staff person and the system to lose track of which tabs were related to > each other, particularly if multiple records are being worked on at once. > > I hope I'm thinking about this and explaining it clearly, it's been a very > long day here! I'd welcome perspective from other staff users on all of > this. > > Makes perfect sense. This is certainly a compelling reason to keep some form of embedded catalog display within the client. Thanks, Terran. -b -- Bill Erickson | Senior Software Developer | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ber...@esilibrary.com | web: http://esilibrary.com | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts