Happy New Year!

Today 3-Jan-2023 we have deployed below changes and fixes to our Beta environment.

The release to Accept is scheduled Monday 9-Jan-2023.
The release to Production is scheduled Tuesday 10-Jan-2023.

Note: this is the first release after the announced freeze period which was between 16-Nov-2022 and 2-Jan-2023.

General note: because it’s possible that users are working in the MyTranssmart dashboard at the moment of the deployment, it is recommended that users log off the dashboard, press Ctrl + F5 to reload the current browser page including the browser cache and log in again.

Shipment overview and details page changes

• In specific scenarios it could occur that the shipment overview page took longer to load than expected. When for instance filtering on a carrier code or status code which returned less than 14 shipments as result, to page took more than 10 seconds to load. This is solved now.
• When making use of Buy/Sell rates, in the shipment details page you can now click an icon which shows the details of the shipping costs, a so-called ‘tariff breakdown’:
  
  
  
  
• We have added functionality to put a shipment on hold and take it off hold. In the shipment overview page the button ‘Onhold’ is added. By default it is disabled.
  
  It works as follows:
  • Select one or more shipments with status LABL. The button is enabled and when you click it, it will change the status of the shipment(s) to ONHOLD.
  • Select one or more shipments with status ONHOLD. The button is enabled and when you click it, it will change the status of the shipment(s) to LABL.
    
    
    This allows you to temporarily block one or more shipments so they are not manifested, since manifesting will only look at shipments with status LABL (and ACCEP). When manifesting is done and you want to manifest the blocked shipments, simply change the status back from ONHOLD to LABL and then manifest them.

Landing page

• In the landing page we have updated the 3 donut charts and improved the design to be responsive for better visibility in different screen sizes and (mobile) devices.
  

Location select / PUDO (PickUp DropOff) points

• We have added the location select functionally for the following carrier(s):
  • DHG (DHL Parcel Gateway)
• PNL: we have made adjustments in the business logic and will only send pudo calls to PNL when receiver country = NL or BE and when the postcode is not empty.
• When making use of own pickup locations, you were not able to choose your own image for the logo and pickup point; the values weren’t saved and in the shipment details page, section Receiver, when pressing button ‘Select pickup point’ it was not showing the images. This is solved now.
• In menu [Manage accounts, Locations & Cost Centers] in the section ‘My pickup points’ there is the possibility to add a pickup point logo. Before there was also a button to upload a location picker logo but the embedded Google Maps code contains a restriction which causes the transparency of an uploaded picture not to work. Because this doesn’t look nicely, we have decided to remove this function. When making use of own locations you are still able to upload an image of your company/brand but in the map the pointers will be the default ones:
  
  
  

Email Settings

• Before, when opening a Mail Template a SPF check was done and a loading spinner was shown until the check was done. This could take up to a few seconds and could be disturbing for the user. We have taken out the SPF check when opening a Mail Template. The SPF check is still done when saving a template.
• In the previous release of week 2022-46 we deployed a fix for an error that came when changing the Email template 'Setup based on' setting in [Manage account, Account settings], but one scenario still gave a (different) error and that was when changing the setting for a second time when using the Act on Behalf function. It worked fine when logging in as a user. This is solved now.

Rate limit

• We have improved the rate limit warning which is shown in MyTranssmart when performing too many calls in a too short period of time. Before, the message would always mention “Please try again after 1 minute” but from now on it will mention the waiting time in seconds.
  
• We have made adjustments and finetuned the rate limiter functionality for downloading reports. When downloading small reports, it is now possible to download more than 5 reports withing 10 minutes.
  
  

Trackbox

• We have added substatuses to our Trackbox Track&Trace website. If a shipment has substatus information, we will show that information instead of the generic main status of the shipment/package.
  

Various changes and fixes

• We have improved the performance of downloading the Address Book and have widened the restriction from 10.000 to 500.000 records.
• When uploading booking profiles via an Excel file with option ‘Add to current booking profiles’, there will also be a check if the Code already exists. If so, it will show an error and not upload the Excel file.
  
  
  
  
• We have made adjustments in the shipment search/response call when searching by additional reference. Before, when the same additional reference was filled in both the shipment and colli lines, it would give back this shipment multiple times because it would find the value multiple times. This is changed now; when searching a shipment on additional reference, it will only search if the value is filled in the shipment line, not in the colli line.
  This affects the following functions/calls:
  • shipment search call; for instance for the additional reference type ‘ORDER’ and value “123123”:
    base_url/v2/shipments/TESTMYTS?reference=123123&referenceType=ORDER
  • searching shipments based on additional reference in the shipment overview page
  • SmartScan calls e.g. PRINTADDREFORDER_123123 will now print the correct number of labels
• We have made the MyTranssmart dashboard responsive so it now also looks good on smaller devices e.g. tablets and mobile phones.
• When accessing the address book, there was no loading spinner implemented. We have now implemented it to make this page consistent with the others.
• In [Manage account] when accessing the Packages page, there was no loading spinner implemented. We have now implemented it to make this page consistent with the others.
• In [Manage account] when accessing the User Management page, the loading spinner was not correctly implemented. We have now implemented it correctly to make this page consistent with the others.
• In Account Settings, new accounts don’t have a value filled for the field Additional references. If you want to make use of one or more, you need to select them in that dropdown and press Save. Before, when opening the dropdown, it looked as if all values were already selected. We have changed this, so it’s more clear that no value is selected yet.
  
• When trying to book a shipment which has different values for the Weight Um and/or Size UoM in different package lines, before it gave an unknown error 500. It will now show an error 400 with message ‘Invalid input shipment data’.