Working with your Manifests

Navigation Tip: By Menu [Transactions | Manifest Explorer]

The Manifest Explorer handles the creation, closing, and posting of shipment manifests both for the current shipping day and for the future. Summary details about the manifests are displayed in categories broken down by carrier.

Selecting a carrier from the drop down list displays a table listing all of the current and future manifests for that carrier. For those carriers that receive transmitted manifests, the status of those manifests is included in the table.

Selecting a manifest in the table will cause certain buttons to gray out (become inactive) and other buttons to darken (become active). The status and type of the manifest chosen dictates the state of the buttons.

The Create (F2) button will create a new manifest. You will get prompted to confirm the creation of a new manifest. Upon accepting, you will be presented with the Manifest Creation dialog.
The Activate (F7) button activates a future manifest. This has the effect of converting a future manifest to an active manifest for the current day.
The Close (F8) button closes a manifest. This prevents any new shipments from being attached to the manifest in question. Closed manifests can be either resumed or posted.
The Resume (F9) button opens a closed manifest. This function allows new shipments to be attached to the manifest in question.
The Post (F10) button performs functions necessary for the final processing of a manifest. This can include uploading the manifest to the carrier and printing the manifest out to a printer or a file. This function can only be done on a workstation that has a thermal printer connected. Click here to view the rules for manifest posting.
The View (F12) button brings up the View Shipment screen with the shipments in the currently selected manifest as the only data presented for viewing.
The Pick Up Rec button prints a pick up label for UPS for SPSS and APSS rating engines.
The World Ease button is only available for UPS. See World Ease, for more information about UPS World Ease.
The Assign BOLs button is only available for LTL carriers.
The Force Post button will set the status of the selected manifest to posted. If the "Require password for Force Post" option is checked in System Parameters, then a password will be required to complete this action. Please contact CMS for more information.

To reprint the manifest go to 'Archived Manifests' site.

Important Tips: When working with Manifests, to avoid potential problems, please read about what to remember when you are working with Manifests

Administrator Tip: To activate logging for your manifest transactions, select F6.

Helper Functions for Developers
Various client-side helper Functions are accessible from this location. Right-click anywhere in the white area of the screen and select View Source. Use the search string 'Contents' to list the following helper functions:
	Function XiSpacePad(string, int) --------------- Suffixes string with spaces to length.
	Function XiZeroPad(string, int) ---------------- Prefixes string with zeroes to length.
	Function XiProperCase(string) ------------------ Capitalizes first character of each word.
	Function XiTestForFile(strFilePath) ------------ Returns True if file (strFilePath) exists, False if it does not.
	Function XiWriteToFile(strPath, strWrite) ------ Writes input string to a text file.
	Function XiWriteToXMLFile(strXML, strXMLPath) -- Writes input string to an XML file.
	Function XiGetDesktopDir() --------------------- Returns the physical path for the Windows Desktop.
	Function XiBase64Decode(string) ---------------- Function to Base 64 Decode the label data.
	Function XiBase64Encode(string) ---------------- Function to Base 64 Encode the label data.
	Function XiFixIllegalChars(strInput) ----------- Function replaces illegal characters with safe ones.

Working with your Manifests

Navigation Tip: By Menu [Transactions | Manifest Explorer]

Helper Functions for Developers