Setting Orders To Manual

Some customers may ask you to "do your magic" to an order. This means setting the packing method to manual.

In these cases, the typical setup is that their pick procedure is to scan the item, then scan the package it goes in to. This is extremely slow for bulk orders.

This can be mitigated by setting the order type to be manually picked. This pick procedure is to scan the item, then input how many of that item they are adding to the order. This means they bypass the need to scan every single item. They just need to scan the different item types.

To make this change, you need to interact with the PCK table.

1. Search the records of the PCK table that match the InstanceID and Job Number.

   This is because job numbers are not unique to each instance, as instances can share the same job numbers.

2. Once the record (the pack job) is found, update the record's PackMethod to Manual.

   Tip:  This will only work if the JobStatus is Ready. Otherwise, the database can be damaged.