Let's take a look at what's new in Octopi this month!
We're working everyday to improve Octopi and enhance your experience. If you're interested in seeing what changes and fixes are deployed each day, you can check out the Changelog in Octopi.
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Invoicing for Trucking Companies
- Added the ability to invoice trucking companies a flat fee for truck visits.
- Added General Ledger IDs for trucking companies and freight forwarders.
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Work Queues for Train Visits
Added work queues of active train visits to the work queue side menu.
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Improved process for creating new rail tracks
We've improved the overall experience of creating new rail tracks. Plus, we've added existing track indicators to the terminal map to avoid unintentionally overlapping existing tracks while drawing new tracks on the map.
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Cargo & Voyages
- The voyage manifest page is now paginated.
- Added ability to cancel voyages.
- Added the ability to associate a trucking company with a bill of lading.
Gates & Yard
- Added more validations to gate-in form for pick ups and drop offs.
- Table View has been renamed List View in Yard Areas.
- Fixed a UI issue that was causing long warning messages to overlap on the truck gate in form.
- Added more validations to gate-in form for pick ups and drop offs.
- Added logic to validate trucking company on gate in of a truck to pickup a full container and warn if there is a mismatch.
- Changed the logic to set trucking company for truck visits. If a truck is not linked with a trucking company, it will fallback to the trucking company linked with the driver.
Reports
- The Duplicate Bookings Report will show you if a container has duplicate bookings for a voyage.
- Linked the Users by Affiliation widget on the Dashboard to the Users Report.
- Added a Goods column to the Bookings Report.
- Added support to show extra attributes in General Cargo Inventory Report.
- Added the ability to filter the Gate Movements Report by one or more movement types.
- Fixed a timezone issue when parsing the start and end dates in the Gate Movements Report.
- Fixed the Truck Visits Report to also include the truck visits where trucks have not gated out yet.
Octopi Integrations
- Added new API endpoints to create, read, update, or delete freight forwarders.
- Added new API endpoints to create, read, update, or delete trucking companies.
- Added pagination and more filters to the invoices API.
- Added a new column on the Outbound EDI Messages page to show the partner the message was sent to.
- Added a column and filter for Partner Code on Inbound EDI Messages page.
Other Enhancements
- Updated the full stripping logic of reefer containers to update their operating status to off.
- Made some background improvements to the delivery orders form.
- Added a container type column to the Containers Inspection and Reefer Pre-Trip Inspection reports.
- Set the quantity and package type automatically based on cargo selection in the delivery order form.
- Requests to merge consignees will now be processed in a background job.
- Fixed rendering issues with map layers.
- Added help text relating to yard slot suggestions
- Store and display who re-opened a general cargo delivery.
- Show the last time a general cargo delivery was updated.
- Added the ability to filter containers by a specific yard area in the container inventory page.
- Fixed a bug when displaying the defrosting value for reefer inspection items.