Field description

Field/CheckboxFunction
Container format

Here you can enter a container format by means of placeholders.

It is activated once you enter the container number (unformatted) into the field Marks in the Seafreight description of goods and leave the field by pressing the Tab key.

Example: PPPP NNN NNN-N

  • Dummy P → letters
  • Dummy N → numbers
Container format verification

If the plausibility check is activated, the system calculates whether the check digit (last digit after the hyphen -) is correct.

Via a query you can decide whether or not the check digit ought to be changed into the calculated algorithm.

Use sales status

See Header data fields in ADDRESSESperson-in-charge field.

Here you can activate the person-in-charge function:

  • Activate the checkbox Use sales status,
  • enter the default sales status (= letter) and
  • enter the maximum number or target customers.
Default sales status

Max. number of target customers

Date fields in order from/to (days)

Validity check of date fields in the files:

  • Here you can enter a validity date that will apply to all date fields in the order files.
  • This time period can lie in the past as well as the future.
  • The programm issues a warning message once you try to use a date outside of the valid time period.
  • The check is conducted in accordance with the order date in the header data in the seafreight module or the AWB date on the AWB Main tab in the airfreight module.

When creating a new file in the areas

  • File → New
  • EDI mailbox
  • Excel Import
  • GLA-XML Create new file

the system checks whether the departure/arrival date is within the values ​​saved.

If the date entered is outside the validity period, a warning message appears. The file can still be created upon confirmation of the warning message.

XML imports are aborted and not created.

AddressesHere you can define the preallocations for customer addresses in different sectors.

Multiple addresses are listed per module.

The fields beginning with Customer... refer to the order sectors (E, I, T, L) that are selected upon order entry.

In the dropdown list, select one of the 9 order addresses A1 to A9 as customer.
Upon order entry, this address will be marked as the customer.

→ Changes in the order can be made by manually activating the customer checkbox of a different address.

Seafreight
Airfreight
Rail
Road
Addresses → B/L synchronization

The synchronization can be separated by  seafreight export and import.

Preallocation of HBL and OBL addresses : Use the dropdown lists per field to determine which addresses will be pre-assigned on the B/L tab in the HB/L and which in the OB/L.