Places
A place, geocoded. Held once and referenced everywhere: the same customer address appears on a hundred deliveries, and correcting it once should correct all of them.
Where to find it
- Module: Supply Chain
- Group: Transportation
- Section: Maps & Geography
- Screen: Places
Address in the console: /scm/geo-places
List · 10 columns · 27 fields on its form · 2 of them required · 2 actions
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Text | name |
| Type | Status | place_type |
| City | Text | city |
| Country | Text | country |
| Latitude | Number | latitude |
| Longitude | Number | longitude |
| Precision | Status | geocode_precision |
| Geocoded | Yes or no | is_geocoded |
| Appointment | Yes or no | appointment_required |
| Active | Yes or no | is_active |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code | Text | ||
| Name required | Text | ||
| Type required | Choice | Configuration list | |
| Company location | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Warehouse | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Customer | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Supplier | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Address | Text | ||
| Address line 2 | Text | ||
| City | Text | ||
| Region | Text | ||
| Postal code | Text | ||
| Country | Text | ||
| Latitude | Number | A rooftop match and a postal-code centroid are both "geocoded", and routing to the second puts a 40-tonne vehicle in a village square. | |
| Longitude | Number | ||
| Time zone | Text | ||
| Open from | Time | ||
| Open to | Time | ||
| Appointment required | Yes or no | ||
| Largest vehicle that can get in | Text | ||
| Has a dock | Yes or no | ||
| Has a forklift | Yes or no | ||
| Needs a tail lift | Yes or no | ||
| Access notes | Long text | ||
| Contact | Text | ||
| Telephone | Text | ||
| Active | Yes or no |
What you can do here
Geocode outstanding
Turn addresses into coordinates
Asks for: How many at most
Distance between two
How far apart are these, as the crow flies?
Asks for: From* To*
* required
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.