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To create a new shipment, navigate to the shipments tab and press the create a shipment button.
When creating a shipment users can select between creating a template-based shipment from pre-defined templates and creating a custom shipment (without templates). If a user has access to a project then he can create a shipment (globally) but within a project (see first picture below). If the user doesn't have access to any project then the option to create shipment within a project is not available (see second picture below). Create a project shipment should only be checked if the user wants the shipment to be created within a project.
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- Select a logger:
- In the dropdown the user can find a list of loggers that are free or in use. Only free loggers can be used. Either the user can type in all or part of the logger ID that is to be selected or select it directly from the list. If the user wants to add another logger then the button add another logger is clicked, then another dropdown will appear below the other logger where the user can find and select a logger. Another way to add a logger is to click the button scan barcode, that should open a modal window where the user can scan a barcode on the back of a logger and the logger is then selected from the logger dropdown list, if the logger is successfully found and added to the shipment the scan barcode modal view is closed automatically. If the logger is not found, has already been added to the current shipment or is in use in another shipment an error modal view appears that suggests to scan another logger barcode. Note that only 4 loggers can be added to each shipment. If a customer has the setting logger description and/or logger reference set on customer level the user will see two extra fields below the logger selection (see picture below), one for Reference and another for Description. When a logger has been selected the field Wake-up interval will be displayed with a default interval pre-selected. If there are more than one available wake-up intervals the user can select what he preferesprefers. The wake-up interval implies at what interval the logger wakes up from sleep mode.
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Once a user selects a single shipment in the shipments view, they are presented with a single shipment view.
The right side of the view is split into two views, the top view has three different tabs for three different views that display shipment information. The bottom view displays a map of the route taken.
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While in the info tab, it is also possible to edit the shipment description. To do this, simply click the pencil icon next to the shipment description in the top right of the info screen.
The chart tab shows a temperature graph for the shipment. When the shipment starts the first 15 minutes are ignored. This time gap from shipped to monitoring, they grey line (see chart), is called an ignore period. In the ignore period no warnings are delivered if there are any excursions and the shipment is marked as fine. E.g. when placing a logger, that has been in high temperature, into a freezer then it takes a few minutes for the logger to cool down to the right temperature and therefor the chart under the chart tab might display high temperature spikes in this period.
The data tab shows us the temperature measurements that the temperature graph in the chart tab uses. These measurements can be viewed in the user interface, downloaded as an excel sheet by pressing the download .xlsx button or as an CSV file, by pressing the download CSV button. By clicking on the globe next to some measurement, the location where the measurement was taken will be displayed on the bottom view map.
The user can perform different operations on the shipment depending on the state that it is in. If the shipment has not yet started, the user can manually override the start method of the shipment by pressing the ship button, then the user will be presented with a ship now view where he either chooses to specify the shipping time or chooses to ship it now.
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The user can change shipment quality, inspection status and add inspection comments to the shipment as long as the shipment has not been closed. He does that by pressing the inspection button and then he will be presented with the inspection view to do that. The shipment inspection is meant for some quality assurance person to decide whether a shipment that has had some medium or high excursions is good or bad. If a customer has the setting for electronic signatures set then the user needs to add his password to complete the inspection, if not then the inspection can be save without approval. After clicking the save button in the inspection view then the electronical signature view opens (only for customer with that customer setting set). The electronical signature view displays what action is being done, i.e. a shipment is being approved after inspection, and the users electronic signature is required, i.e. Reason for operation (required), Username and Password (required). The user can review the raw command parameters and checksum of the action by clicking show raw command parameters and checksum.
The user can Delete shipments that have not started and Cancel shipments that are shipping, delivered or closed. The user deletes a shipment by pressing the delete button and confirms it by pressing the confirm button. Deleting shipments that have not started is useful if some mistakes were made when creating the shipment. Shipments are cancelled by pressing the cancel button and the cancellation confirmed by pressing the confirm button. Shipments that are cancelled are hidden, but can be found under the search tab.
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If you're a user with admin permissions, you can reset boundary alarms. If a boundary has been triggered for a sensor, it can be reset in the Excursion Boundaries table under the info tab in the single shipment view. When a boundary is triggered, the triggered column in the table will get a red exclamation circle icon (it will not change after it has been displayed for the first time) and the armed column will get a red x icon. Clicking the plus icon for the triggered boundary under the details column expands a sub-table where the user can see which sensor was triggered for that boundary. The sub-table shows how many times the boundary was triggered under the column trigger count and whether the boundary is armed or not per sensor. To rearm a boundary for a sensor, click the Rearm button. You are then able to select the time for the alarm to reset by selecting the desired time in the dropdown. Click the green check icon to save the reset. If the time selected is the current time, then the armed column in the sub-table will display a green check icon. If the time selected is in the future, then the armed column displays a clock icon. The icons displayed in the armed column in the parent table depend on the icons in the sub-table. If any sensor has a triggered boundary, then a red x is displayed in the parent table. If a boundary is armed for all sensors in the sub-table, then a green check icon is displayed in the parent table. If a boundary is armed for all sensors, but one will be armed in the future, then the clock icon is displayed in the parent table.
When rearming boundaries, the logger can only receive the command to rearm a boundary when it wakes up. A wake-up only occurs on a preset interval, when a button is pressed on the logger, or if the logger detects an excursion. The earliest any further alerts can be issued by a logger that is rearmed is at its next wake-up, regardless of the delay selected. For example, if you select to rearm a logger immediately but the logger is not scheduled to wake up for 40 minutes, the earliest you can receive an alert is in 40 minutes.
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They stay there until they are processed by the cloud, when they have been processed they are either closed automatically and moved to the closed tab, or moved to the inspection tab since. This depends on a customer setting where Shipments at or above a selected severity level will need to be manually inspected by a user. Shipments below the selected severity level will be automatically inspected and closed by the system.
Inspection
In the inspection tab shipments that have shipment quality set to undecided can be seen. Shipments end up with quality set to undecided due to Medium and High excursions in the shipments. The shipments are split into 3 lists depending on whether they have not been inspected, whether they are being inspected or if they have been inspected, but not closed.
Preparation
In the preparation tab shipments that have been saved as draft or have been created, but not shipped can be seen. The draft shipments will stay there until they are made ready and the ready shipment will stay there until they ship with one of the start methods or by pressing the ship button in the ship button in the shipment view.
Closed
In the closed tab shipments that have been closed can be seen.
Search
In the search tab the user can search for shipments that have certain parameters. Shipment searches are filtered by time created, time shipped, time delivered and time closed. It's possible to search for shipments by status (required) (ready, shipping, delivered, closed and cancelled), reference/name, origin address and destination address, logger ID, Controlant shipment ID and by excursion severity.
Shipment status bar
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- Excursion
Any excursions that may happen during shipment, i.e temperature during shipment goes over the upper boundaries or under the lower boundaries that can be set for a shipment. - Button Pushed
Either the Start or Stop button was pushed during the shipment (only applies to some older shipments). - Start Button Pushed
Start button was pushed during the shipment.
- Stop Button Pushed
Stop button was pushed during the shipment.
- Logger Enters Shipment Mode
Logger has entered shipping mode, i.e the logger is being used with a shipment.
- Logger Enters Standby Mode
Logger has entered standby mode, i.e the logger is not in use.
- Logger At Origin
Logger is at a shipment origin location.
- Logger At Destination
Logger is at shipment delivery location.
- Logger En Route
Logger is on a shipment's route.
- Shipment Created
Shipment was created at this time.
- Shipment Shipped
Shipment was started at this time.
- Shipment Delivered
Shipment was delivered at this time.
- Shipment Closed
Shipment has been closed after delivery.
- Shipment Cancelled
Shipment was cancelled, either before shipment was shipped or after a shipment was closed. - Lights Of
Lights were turned of in shipment. Event that happens when a logger in shipment is placed into a dark space like in a box after being in light. - Lights On
Lights were turned on in shipment. Event that happens when a logger in shipment is affected by light, like when a logger is inside a closed box and the box is opened in bright light.
Light Events
- By default the light events are hidden in the interface but they can be displayed be checking the checkbox "Show light events" in the single shipment view to the right of the event log title.
- If light events are shown they are also displayed in the chart under chart tab.
