Today Thursday 31-Aug-2023 we deployed below changes and fixes to our Beta environment.
The release to Accept is scheduled Monday 4-Sep-2023.
The release to Production is scheduled Tuesday 5-Sep-2023.
Printing API change
In the API prints call we have added the possibility to print a label for one airwaybillNumber only.
See http://accept-devdocs.transsmart.com/#_print_a_package_label_by_reference_and_airwaybillnumber
With this call you can decide to print only one package label although the shipment can contain multiple packages.
We have implemented this change because we more and more see the business needs, for instance when you have a packing machine which only can handle printing 1 specific label at the time. Nevertheless, we do expect you to print the remaining package labels of that shipment shorty after because there could be undesirable situations when having packages with different statuses:
- The status of the package will become LABL, while the other packages and the shipment status will remain NEW.
- You cannot manifest this shipment yet.
- If you edit the shipment and book it again, it will generate new airwaybillNumbers so the package that already had status LABL will now have a new airwaybillNumber and will have status NEW again.
- If insurance is enabled for your account, the insurance booking will be done directly when printing the first label.
DevDocs and other API changes
- We have extended the address types which can be used in the booking flow. At this moment it's possible to book shipments with those values via the Webservice and API. In the near future some of them will also become available in MyTranssmart.
SEND Sender RECV Receiver INVC Invoice 3PTY Third party SNDO Sender Overwrite RCVO Receiver Overwrite IVCO Invoice Overwrite 3PTO Third Party Overwrite IMPO Importer EXPO Exporter BRKR Broker - In the DevDocs in the deliveryNoteInformation we mention that the price and goodsValue are per article. This information was missing for the grossWeight, nettWeight and nettPrice. We have now added the words "per article" to those descriptions too. We have also corrected the description of the word "net" because "nett" is incorrect. We did not change the field names though, because they are already in use like this.
- For performance reasons, we have added an extra validation to the v2/shipments/ call when searching for an additional reference; you must at least type 2 characters to search. When you fill in no characters or only 1 character, you will get an error message.
- In the DevDocs we have added information about the 3 different type of error responses.
See: https://accept-devdocs.transsmart.com/#_reported_errors
Changes in location select / PUDO (PickUp DropOff) points
- We have added the location select connection for
- UPA (United Parcel Service)
- PON (PostNord API)
- DH2 (My DHLExpress APIv2)
- For Bpost (BPO/BPW/LMB) we have added the field extraInfo in the API response which contains information about the Type of pudo point (post office/parcel point/parcel locker). For example:
extraInfo: "{\"type\":\"2\"}" = parcel shop
extraInfo: "{\"type\":\"4\"}" = parcel locker
Various changes and fixes
- In the shipment details page, it's possible to download a ZIP file with shipment labels. In the previous release, we had adjusted our system to handle the different response call we get via a quick fix. We have now built in a permanent fix which has also improved the performance of downloading labels.
- In menu [Manage account, Email Settings] in the trigger section, we have added status DEL to the Transsmart status dropdown:
- In menu [Manage account] the tile "Trackbox" was not available anymore for all users. This is solved now; if Trackbox is part of your license, you will be able to access the tile.
- With the release of 15 Nov 2022 we deployed a change: in the shipment details screen when manually adding a package to the shipment, the description of the package code is not copied to the description of the package line anymore. The reason is that the package code description is an internal description (e.g. Red large box) and the package line description is an external description of the package content which is also sent to the carrier (e.g. books or electronic parts).
There was still one scenario left to change: when creating a new shipment while in menu [Manage account, My Details] a default value was selected for the package code. In that scenario, it would automatically create a package line for a new shipment with the package content description filled. This is adjusted now and it will also stay empty.
- In menu [Manage account] you can setup dispatch locations, packages and booking profiles. In [My Details] and [Account Settings] you can fill in default values for these 3 fields. Before, you were able to delete dispatch locations, packages or booking profiles while they were still linked as default values in the user and/or account settings. This is not possible anymore; when trying to delete a records which is in use, it will show an error. You should first select another value in the settings, before deleting the record.
- We have improved the position of the Help widget and will show a smaller version or even only the question mark on smaller screens
- In the Shipment overview page, the button Show more is moved so it is not hoovering over shipment data anymore.
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Today Monday 4-Sep-2023 we deployed the changes and fixes to our Accept environment.
The release to Production is scheduled tomorrow Tuesday 5-Sep-2023.
We have included some more changes to this release; more information can be found in the release notes.
Today Tuesday 5-Sep-2023 we deployed the changes and fixes to our Production environment.