Configure manual transfer point registration

In some situations, you need to correct a truck's location in an exchange lane that is served by a straddle carrier or ASC, for example when a truck driver lost the gate ticket or a reader error occurred in the lane. N4 needs to communicate any manual changes to a trucks location in a transfer zone to XPS, particularly when:

For XPS to be able to send this update to N4, you need to set up Bento communication between XPS and N4. This requires that you do the following on the N4 side:

For more information, see the N4 online help.

XPS should automatically acquire the following information through the cache/ESB:

For more information on this job, see the N4 online help.

To verify the configuration of gate lanes:

  1. In a N4 client, open the Configuration Gate Gates Gates view.

  1. Verify that transfer points and exchange lanes have been set up.

  1. Make sure the exchange lanes in the Gate Edit form are identical to the lanes in the corresponding Straddle Grid block shown in the Block Plan window (Operations Yard Yard Blocks Right-click Straddle Grid block View Block Plan). For more information, see Navis N4: Setup, Maintenance, and System Diagnostics Guide.

  2. Make sure the transfer points in the Gate Edit form are identical to the blocks of type Transfer Zone listed in the Yard Blocks view.