Trips for Operator - DatasmithSA/NTrack-Android-Help GitHub Wiki

This screen allows for viewing, starting (downloading) and stopping (uploading) trips that have been assigned to the currently logged in operator. The screen can be opened from the Main Menu by clicking the Delivery menu item.

When first opening this screen, the trip (headers are downloaded and shown for all the trips that the current operator has been assigned. N.B. only trips that are not currently started are downloaded and displayed. The list of trips can be refreshed (downloading the trip headers again) by clicking the truck icon in the top left corner.

Starting a Trip: an operator can only work on one Trip at a time. To start working with a trip, the operator must click "Start" button next to the trip name. The this point the trip will babe downloaded from the server including all of its data, such as stores, invoices trolleys and items.

Once the trip has been downloaded, all other trips on the list will disappear and only the currently started trip will be shown. The previous Start button next to the trip name will be replaced by a Stop button.

Details: clicking the Details button on a trip will open the Trip Details screen showing additional information about the trip.

Opening a Trip: to open a started trip and therefore start working on it, the operator must click the trip row in the list. This will open the Stores for Trip screen.

Stopping a Trip: clicking the Stop button next to the trip name will upload the trip data back to the server i.e. updating the server with the changes made during the delivery process.

Once the trip has been uploaded to the server the available trips assigned to the operator will be refreshed allowing the driver to start another trip.