Owen, I don't know that popping out the Z39.50 window is necessary for me for new cataloging, but if I'm updating an existing record I find it helpful to be able to have the Z39.50 marc preview data in the pop-up window so I can look at the existing record in the regular window and examine both the original and the potential replacement side-by-side. As far as window size goes, I had several catalogers complain that the pop-up was too small a couple of years ago, so I wrote some jQuery to set a new default height and width but it set those by pixel count. Shortly thereafter I had some other catalogers complain that the pop-up was too big for their screens because they have their screen resolution set very low to accommodate their eyesight. We actually have one librarian with a very large screen that's been set to 800x600 because of vision problems and the original jQuery (which looked great on most screens) pushed the edges of the pop-up off beyond the margins of her monitor unless it loaded at the extreme upper left corner of the monitor. Sometime last year I re-wrote that jQuery so it sizes the pop-up based on the user's screen resolution and also pushes the window to the upper left corner of the screen. When I saw this e-mail thread I realized that I had never added that jQuery to the library on the wiki, so I just did that. It's at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/JQuery_Library#Reize_Z39.50_pop-up_wind... if anyone following this conversation is interested. See you all later, George On 7/12/2019 7:28 AM, Owen Leonard wrote:
A related question: When using the Z39.50 search function in cataloging do you think it's necessary that the search form and search results appear in a pop-up window? The MARC/Card/Import buttons were combined into a menu because of the limited space available in the window. Changing the size would make things less cramped.
Is it important that one be able to have the Z39.50 window open separately from the MARC editor?
I would love to hear as many opinions as possible!
-- Owen
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