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This article describes how to Dispatch Shipments in IDS 2 Dispatch.

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How to Dispatch Shipments

This article describes how to Dispatch Shipments in IDS 2 Dispatch.

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1. Double Click in the "drivers" column for the shipment you wish to assign.
   
2. this This will activate the driver dropdown
   
3. To select a driver from the dropdown, you can:
   1. start to type the name of the driver.
   2. place your mouse on the scroll bar located to the right of the dropdown.
      
   3. use your middle mouse wheel (if you have one).
4. When you have found the driver, left right click to select that driver
   
5. You will now see the select selected drivers name in the driver's column for that shipment.
   
6. repeat steps 1 to 5 for all the shipments you want to assign.
7. When you have finished, then highlight all the shipments from above, by doing one of the following
   1. holding down the "Ctrl" key, then selecting each shipment.
   2. holding down the "shift" key, then selecting the top record, then selecting the bottom record.
   3. If its just 1 shipment, just select it.
8. When all the shipments have been selected, they will be highlighted in blue.
   
9. The click the "Assign Driver" button on the bottom of the screen.
   
10. The highlighted shipments will then be removed from the Dispatch Board.

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1. You will need to have created a Driver's Board. Click here on creating and using the drivers board. 
2. Highlight one or more shipments in the dispatch board by, 
   1. holding down the "Ctrl" key, then selecting each shipment.
   2. holding down the "shift" key, then selecting the top record, then selecting the bottom record.
   3. If its just 1 shipment, just select it.
3. So that the shipments are highlighted in blue.
   
4. Then put your mouse cursor ontop of the highlighted shipments
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5. Then hold down your main mouse button and drag the shipments to one of your driver board.
6. Keeping your main mouse button down, still on the drivers board, drag the shipments to the driver you wish to assign the shipment.
   1. Each driver has a gray colored row beside their name, place your mouse cursor in this row
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7. Then let go of your main mouse button.
8. The shipments will then appear in the drivers board assigned to that driver.
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9. They will disappear off the dispatch board.