Customize Pack Out Entry to be more scannable

[bparsons (Billy Parsons)]

Hey y’all,

Struggling to think of how to get this working and would love some ideas as it is a point of contention with our Shipping Users who we are rolling Kinetic out to.

In Kinetic, the base Pack Out Entry does not allow entry to certain fields until the Order Number has been populated:

So, when we scan an Order Number with our Scanner that has a Tab suffix, it will go from OrderNum to Use Auto Qty, which is the next available field that is editable

I initially just moved OrderNum, PartNum, and Qty on top of each other, but after scanning the OrderNum, it will always go to Use Auto Qty (because the other fields are still greyed out). The User then has to click inside of PartNum, and from there can scan PartNum and Qty successfully in a row.

I want to make it to where they can easily and quickly scan OrderNum, PartNum, then Qty without having to do anything but click inside of OrderNum initially.

How do you think I could accomplish that?

I have tried to put a custom Text Box bound to the same PartNum field, but that makes it mimic the base field and is greyed out until you scan OrderNum.

Thanks in advance!

[dcamlin (David Camlin)]

This is an approach I took to get around the tab stops on the Issue Material form… may give you some ideas.

I basically just created new textboxes, mapped to the bindings I wanted, in the order I wanted, and put them on the top of the form.

I then had events that would perform one row update at a time, and on-success, perform the next row-update. This gave the system time to load in between each.

Again, not the exact same scenario you’re looking at, but may be close enough to give it a try.

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[bparsons (Billy Parsons)]

David,

Thanks for the quick response. I can actually see that working for us. I will try it out and respond with results.

Thanks so much!

[bparsons (Billy Parsons)]

Got it working, thanks for the ideas @dcamlin!

Added three textboxes for OrderNum, PartNum, and Qty

The OrderNum and PartNum textboxes are bound to Transview fields and have Onblur events tied to them to update the appropriate fields with the values from Transview.

The Qty textbox has some extra events to clear PartNum and Qty and Set Focus back to PartNum

Still maybe working on this last part, but it gets the job done. Our users will also scan a LotNum in Classic and it populates the field at the ShipDtl level. Pack Out Entry in Kinetic doesn’t have a ShipDtl data view, so I added a button that will open Customer Shipment Entry in a slide out to the current Pack ID from Pack Out. This allows them to get to the Line Detail to scan the Lot number and print labels.

Thanks again!