4.0 help with fedex servers, weighing, and printing labels

[mayo]

I have been researching and testing OFBiz 4.0 for 2-3 months and cannot figure out how the fulfillment process continues after picking and packing. I've googled and browsed the OFBiz wiki many times, but couldn't find explanations.

After packing orders I see them listed in "Scheduling", but when I select them and click "Schedule these route segments", the page is goes to the Labels view with nothing showing. I click on the Schedule view and my packed orders are still there.  I am pretty sure the shipment status needs to change to "Ship", but I am unclear how all this is suppose to happen without manually changing them.  And how is OFBiz suppose to communicate with FedEx servers, label printers, and weighing machines?

Would someone be able to point me in the right direction or be able to explain to me how the processes should work?  Any information would be greatly appreciated.

- Al

[Jacques Le Roux]

Please use rather user ML for such questions :
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Mailing+Lists#MailingLists-DeveloperList:dev@...

You will have more luck to get some answers

Thanks

Jacques


From: "mayo" <[hidden email]>

>
> I have been researching and testing OFBiz 4.0 for 2-3 months and cannot
> figure out how the fulfillment process continues after picking and packing.
> I've googled and browsed the OFBiz wiki many times, but couldn't find
> explanations.
>
> After packing orders I see them listed in "Scheduling", but when I select
> them and click "Schedule these route segments", the page is goes to the
> Labels view with nothing showing. I click on the Schedule view and my packed
> orders are still there.  I am pretty sure the shipment status needs to
> change to "Ship", but I am unclear how all this is suppose to happen without
> manually changing them.  And how is OFBiz suppose to communicate with FedEx
> servers, label printers, and weighing machines?
>
> Would someone be able to point me in the right direction or be able to
> explain to me how the processes should work?  Any information would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> - Al
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>

[Jacques Le Roux]

Oops, sorry forget it, I thought I was on dev ML

Jacques


From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[hidden email]>

> Please use rather user ML for such questions :
> http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Mailing+Lists#MailingLists-DeveloperList:dev@...
>
> You will have more luck to get some answers
>
> Thanks
>
> Jacques
>
>
> From: "mayo" <[hidden email]>
>>
>> I have been researching and testing OFBiz 4.0 for 2-3 months and cannot
>> figure out how the fulfillment process continues after picking and packing.
>> I've googled and browsed the OFBiz wiki many times, but couldn't find
>> explanations.
>>
>> After packing orders I see them listed in "Scheduling", but when I select
>> them and click "Schedule these route segments", the page is goes to the
>> Labels view with nothing showing. I click on the Schedule view and my packed
>> orders are still there.  I am pretty sure the shipment status needs to
>> change to "Ship", but I am unclear how all this is suppose to happen without
>> manually changing them.  And how is OFBiz suppose to communicate with FedEx
>> servers, label printers, and weighing machines?
>>
>> Would someone be able to point me in the right direction or be able to
>> explain to me how the processes should work?  Any information would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>> - Al
>> --
>> View this message in context:
>> http://www.nabble.com/4.0-help-with-fedex-servers%2C-weighing%2C-and-printing-labels-tp19781004p19781004.html
>> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>
>

[BJ Freeman]

if you look in the products controller you will see the labels and track
to the pages.
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBENDUSER/Packing+and+Shipping
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBENDUSER/Visual+Pack+and+Ship+Orders
The shipper was defined at order time
that is what determines to use Fedex.



if you look at the fedex code you will see a lot of todo's
Not much has changed since 4.0
that is were the  communication with the fedex servers is done.
Wieghts have to be put in manually,OOTB, but there is a scale applet
that is in the code you can integrate.

if you look at lines 917 to 926 they deal with return data from fedex
shipmentPackageRouteSeg.setBytes("labelImage", labelBytes);
is the label.

you can look in committs
586925
660843
to see what was done beyond 4.0


mayo wrote:

> I have been researching and testing OFBiz 4.0 for 2-3 months and cannot
> figure out how the fulfillment process continues after picking and packing.
> I've googled and browsed the OFBiz wiki many times, but couldn't find
> explanations.
>
> After packing orders I see them listed in "Scheduling", but when I select
> them and click "Schedule these route segments", the page is goes to the
> Labels view with nothing showing. I click on the Schedule view and my packed
> orders are still there.  I am pretty sure the shipment status needs to
> change to "Ship", but I am unclear how all this is suppose to happen without
> manually changing them.  And how is OFBiz suppose to communicate with FedEx
> servers, label printers, and weighing machines?
>
> Would someone be able to point me in the right direction or be able to
> explain to me how the processes should work?  Any information would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> - Al

[Jacques Le Roux]

To use the ShipmentScaleApplet on Windows you will need plugin.jar usualy found in your jdk \jre\lib

Jacques

From: <[hidden email]>

> if you look in the products controller you will see the labels and track
> to the pages.
> http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBENDUSER/Packing+and+Shipping
> http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBENDUSER/Visual+Pack+and+Ship+Orders
> The shipper was defined at order time
> that is what determines to use Fedex.
>
>
>
> if you look at the fedex code you will see a lot of todo's
> Not much has changed since 4.0
> that is were the  communication with the fedex servers is done.
> Wieghts have to be put in manually,OOTB, but there is a scale applet
> that is in the code you can integrate.
>
> if you look at lines 917 to 926 they deal with return data from fedex
> shipmentPackageRouteSeg.setBytes("labelImage", labelBytes);
> is the label.
>
> you can look in committs
> 586925
> 660843
> to see what was done beyond 4.0
>
>
> mayo wrote:
>> I have been researching and testing OFBiz 4.0 for 2-3 months and cannot
>> figure out how the fulfillment process continues after picking and packing.
>> I've googled and browsed the OFBiz wiki many times, but couldn't find
>> explanations.
>>
>> After packing orders I see them listed in "Scheduling", but when I select
>> them and click "Schedule these route segments", the page is goes to the
>> Labels view with nothing showing. I click on the Schedule view and my packed
>> orders are still there.  I am pretty sure the shipment status needs to
>> change to "Ship", but I am unclear how all this is suppose to happen without
>> manually changing them.  And how is OFBiz suppose to communicate with FedEx
>> servers, label printers, and weighing machines?
>>
>> Would someone be able to point me in the right direction or be able to
>> explain to me how the processes should work?  Any information would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>> - Al
>

[mayo]

Thanks for the help and advice everyone. For a quick and easy solution we are going to to integrate into an existing middle-ware solution, Clippership, to get our labels printed and use custom code to complete the shipping process.  I will look at the weighing/scale solution you've suggested or will possibly require users to enter in the weights manually.

mayo wrote

I have been researching and testing OFBiz 4.0 for 2-3 months and cannot figure out how the fulfillment process continues after picking and packing. I've googled and browsed the OFBiz wiki many times, but couldn't find explanations.

After packing orders I see them listed in "Scheduling", but when I select them and click "Schedule these route segments", the page is goes to the Labels view with nothing showing. I click on the Schedule view and my packed orders are still there.  I am pretty sure the shipment status needs to change to "Ship", but I am unclear how all this is suppose to happen without manually changing them.  And how is OFBiz suppose to communicate with FedEx servers, label printers, and weighing machines?

Would someone be able to point me in the right direction or be able to explain to me how the processes should work?  Any information would be greatly appreciated.

- Al