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Live view

The site plan with everything that moves on it, the Who is where list, Replay and the TV.

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Warehouse & rackingGate · Site plan · Live view

Live view is your site plan with everything that moves drawn on it: lorries, people, forklifts and pallets. Nothing is typed in for it. Every sign-in, bay, scan, pick, count, put-away and shift start writes a line to the move ledger, and the plan draws the latest line for each thing.

  • Lorries go from the gate to a waiting space to their bay and out, as their booking is signed in, sent to a bay, released and signed out.
  • People stand at the slot they last scanned, counted or put away at, with how long ago. We do not track where anyone walks.
  • Forklifts stand with their driver. Pallets show where they were last put.
  • Who is where lists everything by group. Press a row to find it on the plan.
  • Replay plays back any day at 1x, 10x or 60x. Drag the scrubber to any moment.

The TV wallboard has the same plan in its On site panel, with every lorry on site until it leaves. A driver who shares their location from the arrival page sends the phone’s position, direction and speed about every 15 seconds on the way, and every 2 seconds while they are moving on site.

Positions come from sign-ins, scans, shifts, drivers’ phones and trackers, not from tags

A person is shown at the slot they last scanned, counted or put away at, or at the bench they are working at; we do not track where anyone walks. A lorry is drawn where its driver’s phone or its carrier’s tracker says, while it keeps sharing, and otherwise where its booking stands it. The Live view keeps where it drew a lorry from a driver’s phone or a tracker for 14 days, so you can replay any of the last two weeks, and then deletes those positions. The booking itself holds only the latest one, and none once its visit is over (signed out, a no-show or called off). Separately, the raw readings DockLedger fetches from a carrier’s own tracking account are kept for 30 days and then deleted. A dot is only as fresh as the last thing that person did. A dot that has not been heard from for half an hour fades. Where a colleague last scanned, picked, put away or counted, and when their floor shift last checked in, is shown to owners, managers and office staff and kept for 30 days. Vehicles’ and pallets’ moves are kept for 90.

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