Note: This panel may be displayed in either Maintenance or Enquiry mode. In Enquiry mode, you are only able to view the information and only certain options are available. The panel heading differs accordingly.
This panel displays the available freight documents defined in Work with freight documents. In this program you define the basic data that is to be printed on the freight documents. By entering data, you activate the freight document for the selected shipping agent.
Options
Selection fields
- Shipping agent
- Displays the selected shipping agent and its description.
- Document
- This column lists the available freight documents.
- Description
- Displays a description of the corresponding freight document.
- Active
- Indicates if the related freight document is activated for the selected shipping agent.
- Bar code
- Indicates if a bar code is required for the selected shipping agent.
- Printer queue
- Displays the name of the printer where the corresponding freight document is to be printed.
- First number to use
- Displays the number (pertaining to the number series range) that is to be assigned to the first freight document.
- Last number to use
- Displays the number (pertaining to the number series range) that will be the last assigned to a freight document.
- Next number to use
- Displays the number that will be assigned to the next freight document.
- Hold on spool file
- Indicates if the printout is to be held in the output queue, and can be requested later, for instance by the system commands WRKSPLF or WRKOUTQ.
- Our customer number
- Displays our customer number at the shipping agent.
- Use doc number from
- Displays the number series that will be assigned to the combined bill-of-lading and label document, if a combination of the two documents should be printed.
Work with shipping agents, Freight docs (DIR03304)
On this panel you enter or maintain the basic data that should be printed on the selected freight document for the current shipping agent. By entering this data, you also activate the document for the shipping agent.
- Shipping agent
- Displays the selected shipping agent.
- Document
- Displays the selected freight document.
- Bar code
- Indicate if a bar code is required for the selected shipping agent.
- Our customer number
- Enter our customer number at the shipping agent.
- Printer queue
- Enter the name of the printer where the freight document is to be printed, when you select the print function from the Work with freight documents program.
- Hold on spool file
- This field is set to NO by default, which means that you will get a printout as soon as the printer is available. If you set this field to YES, the printout is held in the output queue, and can be requested later, for instance by the system commands WRKSPLF or WRKOUTQ.
Document number
Enter the format of the freight document number series in the following three fields.
- First number to use
- Enter the number (pertaining to the number series range) that is to be assigned to the first freight document. This number must be less than, or equal to, the Next number to use. Note: The number series is defined in the DIS control file.
- Last number to use
- Enter the number (pertaining to the number series range) that will be the last assigned to a freight document. This number must be greater than the First number to use.
- Next number to use
- Enter the number that will be assigned to the next freight document. This value can be equal to, or greater than, the First number to use and less than the Last number to use. Note: The system will automatically default the “next number to use” in this field.
- Use doc number from
- Every bill-of-lading label is automatically assigned either a consignment or bill-of-lading number. However, you can choose to print a combination of the bill-of-lading document and the labels. If so, the same number series will be used to assign unique numbers to this combined document. Enter the number series that should be assigned to the combined bill-of-lading and label document.