Warehouse Buildings

Form ID: (IN204010)

You use this form to manage warehouse buildings and view warehouses assigned to a particular building. One warehouse building can be assigned to one or multiple warehouses. You can assign a warehouse building to a warehouse in the Building ID box on the Address tab of the Warehouses (IN204000) form. Users can perform single-step transfers between warehouses assigned to the same building by using the Scan and Transfer (IN304020) form. For more information about automated transfers, see Counting in Physical Inventory: General Information.

Form Toolbar

The form toolbar includes standard and form-specific buttons and commands. For the list of standard buttons, see Form Toolbar and More Menu. The form-specific commands are listed in the following table.

Button Description
Change ID Opens the Specify New ID dialog box, which you can use to enter a new identifier (ID) for the warehouse building.

Address Lookup Dialog Box

In this dialog box, you can add a new address, update an existing address, and fill in the missing address information in a record that has address settings. You can also search for the name of the company and select the company's address. You can click the link to view the address in a new browser tab. If the address is correct, you can click Select to fill in the boxes in the Address section of the applicable form with the company location details. The addresses you can select from the list are limited to the countries specified for the address provider.

Tip:
  • If needed, you can use only a keyboard to select an address in the dialog box. When the Address Lookup dialog box has been opened, the system moves the focus to the Enter a Location box. You enter the known part of the address in the box, select the address by using the arrow keys, and press Enter. Then you can check the address and press Enter to close the dialog box.
  • You can expand the size of the Address Lookup dialog box to see the map in a larger scale by dragging the edges or corners of the dialog box.

This dialog box is available only if the Address Lookup Integration feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form and integration with a web map service has been set up as described in Integration with Web Map Services.

ElementDescription
Enter a Location

A box for searching for the company's address.

You can find the address by doing the following:

  • Find a company address by a postal code if no other address details are available: If you enter the postal code into this box, the system displays the address options with the cities and country (and the state, if the country has states) that are valid for the postal code.
  • Find a full address by a street address: If you enter the street address into this box and select the address, the system will fill in the country (and the state, if applicable), city, and postal code on the form.

The web service selected as an address provider on the Site Preferences (SM200505) form searches for the information that matches your search criteria and lists all the search results below this box. You can click the needed value in the list, and the web service populates the box with this value and displays the address in the map area.

Map area

The area that displays the map, which takes most of the space of the dialog box. Depending on the address provider, Google Maps or Bing Maps can be used.

In this area, you can view the existing company location. If you click the Address Lookup button, the company address is shown in the dialog box as a location on the map.

This dialog box has the following buttons.
SelectCloses the dialog box and populates the current section with the address details that you have selected in this dialog box.
CancelCloses the dialog box and cancels the selection of the company address.

Summary Area

In this area, you can create a record for a new warehouse building, enter its ID and description. You can also select an existing warehouse building and view or change its settings.

Element Description
Building ID The unique identifier of the warehouse building.
Branch The branch to which this warehouse building belongs.
Description

A brief description of the warehouse building.

Warehouses Tab

On this tab, you can view the table with the list of warehouses assigned to the warehouse building. All information about warehouses is read-only and is copied from the Warehouses (IN204000) form.

The table toolbar includes only standard buttons. For the list of standard buttons, see Table Toolbar.

Element Description
Warehouse ID The identifier of the warehouse.
Description A brief description of the warehouse.
Active A check box that indicates (if selected) that the warehouse is active and available for selection on the forms.

Address Tab

You use this tab to specify the address of the warehouse building.

Element Description
Address Line 1 The first line in the address of the warehouse building.
Address Line 2 The second line in the warehouse building address.
City The city of the warehouse building address.
Country The country where the warehouse building is located.
State The state where the warehouse building is located.
Postal Code The postal code relevant for the warehouse building address.
View on Map

A button you click to open the map specified on the Site Preferences (SM200505) form and provided by the Google Maps or Bing Maps web map service to view this address on a map, which is opened in a new tab.

This button is displayed on the form if the Address Lookup Integration feature is disabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.

Address Lookup

A button you click to open the Address Lookup dialog box.

For the description of the dialog box, see Address Lookup Dialog Box.

This button is displayed on the form if the Address Lookup Integration feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form and if the integration with web map services has been set up, as described in Integration with Web Map Services.