Comment 8 for bug 1117808

The source of my confusion was that I thought the profiles were being applied to the existing record, not the incoming record for Z39.50, since this is the behavior we see in Vandelay. It feels like it's working backwards, but, now that I know what it's doing, I see that it is working as expected. I also see that the selector is defaulting to the profile configured and the library settings and that it remembers the previously-selected profile (we love sticky options at MassLNC!)

I'll defer to Tina's judgement on the question of whether we need an option to select /no/ merge profile. Now that I understand the behavior, I don't think it's necessary, and, if we find out through production use that we need something like that, we can address it at that time.

I just have one question before merging it. I don't know if this was one of the intended use cases, but I used a merge profile that added the 590 tag as a way to preserve the local note. When importing a record via Z39.50 or merging records, I noticed the 590 tag was placed at the top of the record rather than among the other 5xx tags. Is there a way it could be placed in a more logical location in the record?

Thanks Galen!