Sorting plan detail

A sort plan is used to sort shipments into compartments. These can be sorting compartments of a sorting machine or sorting shelves. The sort plan defines the criteria that apply to the corresponding items for each sort compartment.

Sorting plan

The sorting plan has a name and a remark. These can be freely chosen. However, the name can give hints about the use of the sort plan (e.g. 'Coarse sort plan A').

Fans

There are three types of subjects:

• Sort Tray
  Defines the criteria that a shipment must meet in order to be sorted into a tray.

• Function tray
  Defines a tray into which a shipment is ejected when a specific error occurs.

• Link compartment
  Integrates detailed sort plans into the sort plan

Operation

• Add
  A new empty subject assignment is inserted below the selected line.
  If no line is selected, the new assignment is inserted at the end of the list.

• Delete
  All selected assignments are deleted after confirmation.
  ATTENTION: The deletion cannot be undone!

• Click to copy
  A copy of the selected subject assignment is inserted below it.

• Insertion
  Above the selected line a new tray assignment is inserted with identical tray number.
  If no line is selected, the new assignment is inserted at the end of the list.
  All assignments with tray numbers greater than the new tray will be incremented by one (1) until a gap in the tray numbering is found.
  ATTENTION: This action cannot be undone!

• Reorder
  All subject assignments are reordered without gaps, starting with 1.
  Existing subject assignments with the same subject number and the same subject type receive identical new subject numbers.
  ATTENTION: This action cannot be undone!

Sorting tray

Sort criteria are specified for sort trays, which should apply to the items for the corresponding tray. The sort criteria are specified in the form of <criterion name>="<value>" or <criterion name>= REGEX("<value>").

Multiple sort criteria can be listed separated by semicolons. All sorting criteria for a subject are linked AND.

If more than one sorting criterion is to apply to a sorting bin(OR operation), simply add another line with the same bin number and the corresponding sorting criteria.

Examples: Bez-UPOC = "2599981500"; Depot-Name = REGEX("HPL.*")

Sort criteria

The following sort criteria are available:

The upper/lower case is not considered.

RegEx expressions

Sort criteria can also contain regular expressions (RegEx), which can be used to create very complex and flexible sort plans. A RegEx expression is specified with the function name RegEx("...").

Example: All districts where the name starts with begins with 'ABC':

Ref-Name=RegEx("ABC\w+")

Function tray

Function trays are used for a specific function depending on the application. A function tray is identified by a name. The name is specified by the application. In a sort plan, all function trays that the application requires must be defined. Otherwise the sort plan cannot be loaded.

The following functional compartments are available:

The upper/lower case is not considered.

Link compartment

Link compartments were used to automatically generate coarse sort plans (1st sort run) based on fine sort plans (nth sort run).

A fine sort plan is given to a link box. CodX PostOffice automatically determines all sort criteria of all sort trays of the fine sort plan of the fine sort run and assigns them to the sort bin of the coarse sort plan. Fine sort plans can in turn contain link trays. These are also automatically includes them in the coarse sort plan. However, there must not be any circular links (sort plan A with link compartment on sort plan B / sort plan B with link compartment on sort plan A).

The functional compartments of fine sort plans are not automatically copied to the coarse sort plan. However, the coarse sort plan must contain all functional compartments of all fine sort plans. Otherwise, generation is terminated with an error.