GS:Miscellaneous Menu

The Miscellaneous menu contains various functions available in Whistle, that don't correspond with a specific menu. Many of the Miscellaneous functions are maintenance related.

• Version Window
• Labels Menu
• Change Warehouse Window
• Printer Window
• Character Map Window
• Generate Reports Menu
• Edit Dictionary Window
• User Setup Window
• Maintenance Menu
• Run Print Jobs Window
• Test Vendor Label Window
• Config Scan Detect Window
• PO Return Window

Miscellaneous Menu Settings

This window displays the current Console Character Map window by showing each bracketed character range and their corresponding display.

Generate Report

This displays the Reports menu window. This menu gives the user the following choices :

• Print Receipt
• Print Shipment
• Print Inventory
• Cont (Container) History
• Exception Log
• QC Report
• SSCC Label

Print Receipt

To print a Receiving Report, enter either the Receipt # or the PO # into to corresponding field. Ctrl-A works on the PO field. Printing occurs to the default printer.

Print Shipment

To print a Shipping Report, enter the SO # into the SO # field. Printing occurs to the default printer.

Print Inventory

This option will give a report of all inventory in the current warehouse by the follow criteria :

All Items Active Only On Hold Hard Hold

Cont (Container) History

This option will bring up the Container History window. This window will display the complete history of a container and allow for the addition of comments to a container’s history entry.

Enter a tracking # into the Track # field (Ctrl-T also works).

The history display will be shown in the imbedded result window which is searchable with the arrow keys.

To add a comment to any history record for a given pallet - select the desire history record and arrow down to the <Comment> field. Enter the comment that will be attached to the selected history record and arrow down to the <Update> button. Pressing <Enter> will commit the comment addition transaction.

Exception Log

This option will bring up the Exception History window. This window accepts search criteria for the following fields :

Track # User Name Date From Date To

By specifying any, all or none of this criteria, Whistle will search the exception entries or matches and display the results in an embedded result window for viewing.

QC Report

QC Reports are available by date from this window.

SSCC Label

This window will direct Whistle to print an SSCC label based on the input of a valid tracking number and the Order # to which the label will be tied for the printing. The destination printer and number of copies to print may be set from this window as well.

Edit Dict (Dictionary)

This window allows the user the edit available dictionaries.

Maintenance

This selection displays the Maintenance Menu for which the following are options :

• User Params
• CatchWeight Maint (Maintenance)

User Params

This window allows the User Parameters for a given Company/Warehouse to be specified.

Currently, only the wms_contdtl_tbl holds user-params.

The [Param] scroll-field designates the parameter being defined. The [Name] and [Short Name] inputfields take the naming values for the parameter. The [Type] field denotes the field’s data type (text or datetime). The [Min] & [Max] fields denote the minimum and maximum values for the parameter value. The [Default] field holds the default value for the parameter.

The following transaction checkboxes are used to associate the parameter with Whistle transactions. Receiving Report Prod Build Pallet Report Misc Report CW (CatchWeighted)

The [Required] checkbox denotes obligatory use of the parameter. The [Hold List] checkbox denotes use of the parameter in using the value for hold status. The [SQL] text form takes associated SQL statements to be used by the parameter often for validation use.

CatchWeight Maint (Maintenance)

This window is used to maintenance and setup the catchweighted definitions for item/packs in Whistle. And Item and Pack are designated as a Sub-lotted, catchweighted item in the first two fields, [Item] & [Pack]. The following fields are to be defined for their use in defining the catchweighted item/pack. Cust Item Min Weight Max Weight Tare Weight Net Wt SCC Freeze By Peel By Back Date Sell By