Sorting plan detail

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

Sorting plan

The sorting plan has a name and a comment. These can be chosen freely. However, the name can indicate the use of the sort plan (e.g. 'Rough sort plan A')

Subjects

There are three types of subjects:

• Sorting compartment
  Defines the criteria that a consignment must meet in order to be sorted into a compartment

• Functional compartment
  Defines a compartment to which a consignment is ejected if a specific error occurs

• Link compartment
  Integrates fine sorting plans into the sorting plan

Operation

• Add
  A new empty compartment 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!

• Copy
  A copy of the selected compartment assignment is inserted below it.

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

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

Sorting compartment

Sorting criteria are specified for sorting compartments, which should apply to the consignments for the corresponding compartment. The sorting criteria are specified in the form of <criterion name>="<value>" or <criterion name>= REGEX("<value>").

Several sorting criteria can be listed separately with a semicolon. All sorting criteria for a compartment are AND-linked.

If several sorting criteria apply to a sorting compartment(OR link), simply add another line with the same compartment number and the corresponding sorting criteria.

Examples: Reference-UPOC = "2599981500"; Depot name = REGEX("HPL.*")

Sorting criteria

The following sorting criteria are available:

Capitalization is not taken into account.

RegEx expressions

Sort criteria can also contain regular expressions (RegEx).
This allows very complex and flexible sorting plans to be created.
A regex expression is specified with the criterion =RegEx("...").
RexEx are always evaluated case insensitively, note the regex syntax!

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

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

Functional compartment

Functional compartments are used for a specific function depending on the application. A function compartment is identified by a name. The name is specified by the application. All function trays required by the application must be defined in a sort plan. Otherwise the sort plan cannot be loaded.

The following functional compartments are available:

Capitalization is not taken into account.

Link compartment

Link trays were used for the automatic generation of coarse sorting plans (1st sorting run) based on fine sorting plans (nth sorting run).

A fine sorting plan is specified for a link tray. CodX PostOffice automatically determines all sorting criteria of all sorting trays of the fine sorting run and assigns them to the sorting tray of the coarse sorting plan. Fine sorting plans can in turn contain link trays. These are also automatically included in the coarse sort plan. However, there must be no circular references (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 sorting plans are not automatically transferred to the coarse sorting plan. However, the coarse sort plan must contain all the functional compartments of all the fine sort plans. Otherwise the generation is aborted with an error.