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

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How to Create Dispatch Boards

How to Dispatch


Tip

If you double click on any shipment, it will appear in the Search and Edit Tabs, so you can edit the shipment

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How to Create Dispatch Boards

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1. To create a Dispatch Board, click "Open a New Dispatch Board"

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If you don't see the above, then double click an inch or more to the right of the word "Dispatcher" in the main menu. For example put your mouse here:

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Then double click your mouse

(You can also do the above to hide the "Open New Dispatch Board" tab).

2on 'Dispatch' from the top of the screen.

2. Then click on 'New Dispatch Window'.

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3. This will open a new Dispatch Window.

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3. You can drag the created Dispatch Board anywhere on your screen as well as onto another monitor. Simply put place your mouse at the top of the Dispatch Board. For example here:

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7. Your created Dispatch Boards will automatically reopen when you log back in.

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How to Dispatch Shipments

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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 on top of the highlighted shipments
  5. Then hold down your main mouse button and drag the shipments to the Drivers 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 to.
    1. Each driver has a gray colored row beside their name, place your mouse cursor in this row
  7. Then let go of your main mouse button.
  8. The shipments will then appear in the drivers board assigned to that driver.
  9. They will disappear off the dispatch board.

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