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Real-Time Availability Status
By default, VuFind's index only contains basic bibliographic information. To obtain information on item availability, VuFind makes real-time AJAX calls to its ILS driver. This information may be rendered differently depending on a variety of settings in the [Item_Status] section of config.ini.
Availability status behavior falls into two major categories, controlled by whether the show_full_status setting is true (“Full Status Display”) or false (“Summary Status Display”).
Full Status Display
In this mode, VuFind will display detailed line-by-line information on items attached to a particular bibliographic record. The rendering of these line items may be customized by modifying the ajax/status-full.phtml template in your chosen theme.
Summary Status Display
In this mode, VuFind attempts to reduce the information provided by the ILS driver down to simple call number, location and status fields. The exact behavior of this reduction is controlled by the multiple_call_nos, multiple_locations and preferred_service settings, which are documented in comments in config.ini.
Services
VuFind 3.0 introduces a new ILS driver feature: the 'services' key of the getStatus() response. When this data is provided, VuFind's boolean availability display is extended to include more detailed information.