Locate the ID you noted in step 4 in the ID column.
You can set up a user's terminal and RF gun so that different tunes play for orders with different ship vias. Playing different musical tunes can assist in alerting your pickers when orders come in that might have picking priority, for example, Pick Up Now orders.
To use different musical tunes for immediate RF picks, the
If you set a user's terminal similar to the RF gun, the terminal is restricted to the menu options on the RF gun. This functionality of playing different tunes for different ship vias will not work on a regular terminal sessions. The user needs to be logged in to the terminal set up to be like an RF gun.
To set up an RF gun to use different musical tunes for immediate RF Picks:
Set up the users and the branch to notify users for pick up now orders.
From the System > System Files > User Control menu, select Music Composer to display the Music Composer screen.
Create and save a tune for the RF Pick Up Now ship via where the first two letters of the music ID are RF followed by the first three letters of the ship via name.
For example, to define a musical tune for the ship via of UPS, create a musical score with ID RF.UPS. .
Check the terminal ID on the RF gun by clicking the Options/Configure option on the gun. Make note of the terminal ID.
From the terminal with the ID you noted in step 4, select System > System Files > Terminal Setup to display the Terminal Setup window.
Locate the ID you noted in step 4 in the ID column.
A terminal with the ID in step 4 must exist in the system, and it must match exactly. Terminal IDs are case sensitive. For example, if the Terminal Setup screen says RFGUN1 but the gun's ID is rfgun1, the system cannot make the RF connection. The terminal ID must also have R set in the T (Type) field, indicating that the terminal is a hand-held radio frequency device.
Make any necessary changes and press Esc to save the Terminal setup information.
To set the user's terminal up to be similar to the RF gun setup, continue the following sections.
To set a user's terminal to use different musical tunes for immediate picks:
If necessary, complete steps 1 to 3 in the above procedure.
From the System > System Files menu, select Terminal Maintenance to display the Terminal Setup screen
Note: If prompted, log on to the character-based system.
Press Enter in the Search Criteria field to display the terminal IDs available in your branch.
On the line below the last terminal ID in the list, enter a terminal id that is the same as the user ID for the terminal, or close to it if the user ID is longer than six characters, and enter an R in the T (Type) column.
Set up the additional terminal information as necessary and press Esc to save the new terminal ID.
From the Eterm menu bar, select Configure > Communications to display the Configure Communications screen.
In the ID field, enter the terminal ID you created in steps 3 and 4 and click OK to save your changes.
Have the user relog in to the system.
The user's terminal is not similar to the RF gun, and is restricted to the menu options on the RF gun. This functionality of playing different tunes for different ship vias will not work on a regular terminal sessions. The user needs to be logged in to the terminal set up to be like an RF gun.
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