Circulation Freeze is a feature which allows any Institution to be able to stop the availability of Items in SCSB and Function of lending Library Items for the Patrons. This is a new feature which is introduced in SCSB where during a certain period of time, Items will show unavailable on SCSB UI for the Institution applying this feature. If any Patron tries to make a request for unavailable Items, SCSB UI will flash a message saying “Item unavailable.”
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How to configure circulation freeze?
To turn on circulation freeze for a particular institution, set the property “ils.enable.circulation.freeze“ to true for that institution. To turn off the circulation freeze, set the property “ils.enable.circulation.freeze“ to false. SCSB Properties are managed in an DB table “scsb_properties_t“. Circulation freeze message can be set with the property “ils.circulation.freeze.message“. In order to take these properties changes in effect, both circulation and ui-service modules to be restarted.