Bulk Materials Ideas
Idea and discussion portal for the bulk materials product line. Users may submit, view and vote on ideas submitted by all users.
Idea and discussion portal for the bulk materials product line. Users may submit, view and vote on ideas submitted by all users.
It would be very helpful to show the Start- to Finish-time entered in the "Dispatch Order" screen as a column on the "Dispatch Schedule" screen.
This would alert and make the scale house operator aware of the urgency of some shipments.
Hi Ralf,
Our estimated delivery of our new version is 4th quarter of 2018.
Kristy Marshall
Hi Chris, we are on v6.0.
I think the solution we would need is in v2017+, we don't typically utilize all the stuff to calculate how long loading takes etc.
What we would like is a visible notification i.e. record highlighted in red when 30min to end date. So that when 11am is the end date the record gets highlighted at 10:30. It sounds like v2017+ could do that. Do you have an estimate as to when this version is available?
Thanks,
Ralf
Ralf,
With our new inquiry (available in v6.0) you are able to customize the SQL query used to display the information in the inquiry. As such, an ‘Order By’ can be added to the end of the statement. Something like ‘ORDER BY SchedStartDateTime ASC’ would display the dispatches in order of start time from oldest to newest. Even better, use NextLoadDateTime instead (so that the time shifts based on the next load that should go out).
A color set could be added, >NOW, to this field, to display if this was late or not.
In v2017+ (not yet generally available) we have built in the ability to go a step further with the color set so that you can put in a certain length of time. This is something like >NOW-30, where if the dispatch is within 30 minutes that field will be highlighted.
Thanks,
Chris
Even with the Start-/End-time on the screen our users would still like to see an enhancement of the current functionality. The proposed change should be something like highlighting and moving the dispatch to the top of the list when only 30min are left on the predetermined dispatch end-time.
Hi Chris, thanks for the response. Gary sent me a response to this and pointed out that the Start/End date/times are already on the screen. I believe we have a work around in place how to deal with this going forward. Thanks for the response!
Ralf, I haven't looked to find the version of Apex you are on - Are you on Apex v6.0? Have you tried using the new Dispatch Schedule window as opposed to the legacy one? In this one, you can customize the columns, etc., and Sched Start Time/Sched Finish Time are there by default.