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| =Calidus ''Vision''= | | <div style="text-align: center;">[[File:Calidus_Vision.jpg]]</div> |
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| ==Introduction== | | <center><font size="5">Welcome to the ''CALIDUS'' Vision Assist help pages.</font></center> |
| The purpose of the Calidus ''Vision'' product is to allow visibility of productivity, system and business information through the use of graphs, charts and data lists.
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| There is a business need to extract and see information regarding the operation and its performance within the warehouse.
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| Therefore the Calidus Vision product will be used to display this information.
| | Here you will find all kind of guides, from simple to advanced, from user guides to technical implementation guides, all to provide as much information on how to get the best out your ''CALIDUS'' Vision implementation. |
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| As Calidus 3''pl''-Mobile (the WCS) is highly used and must remain responsive at the highest level at all times, the data for Vision is 'mined' into a new database, where productivity analysis begins.
| | Assuming you are now up and running with your system, why not try to find something you didn't know? Try clicking the 'Did You Know' link below. |
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| ==Network Diagram==
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| In this instance, Calidus 3''pl''-Mobile exists on one server and the Data Mining process and Calidus Vision are on a separate server, for simplicity. As all of the processes are Windows-based, all could co-exist on the same server or be distributed to separate servers as required.
| | <center><font size="5">[[Did You Know]]</font></center> |
| Additionally, although the Data Mining Process and Application Server databases are separate in the diagram, they are normally combined.
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| ==Data Mining==
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| OBS have created data mining processes for the extraction of system, activity and productivity data from the Calidus 3''pl''-Mobile database.
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| System Data:
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| * Receipts in Progress
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| * Total Cases SKUs on Receipts
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| * Total number of SKUs on Receipts
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| * Number of Putaways and total quantity.
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| * Number of Moves and total quantity
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| * Number of Replens and total quantity
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| * Number of Full-pallet Picks and total quantity
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| * Number of Part-pallet picks and total quantity
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| * Number of Stock Take tasks
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| * Number and Status of loading tasks (Pending, Held, In Progress, Ready for Despatch)
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| Activity Data:
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| * All Activities performed by RF users
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| Productivity Data (Calculated from the Activity Data):
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| * Summary of number of tasks completed per day
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| * Detail of number of tasks completed per session
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| * Productivity figures derived from tasks per hour, per day.
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| Platform: Windows
| | That's how Assist works - help broken down into bite-size chunks, designed to help you make the most of your system. If you're familiar with the web, and familiar with Wiki, you're going to find it easy to get around in Assist. |
| Technology: Windows Script, DAO, MySQL Database
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| ==Parameters==
| | If you're coming here as a new user without a clear idea of how ''CALIDUS'' Vision works or what it does, you should start with the overview - that will give you enough information so that you're clear on what we're achieving with this application. You'll find it first in the list below [[#System Overview|here]]. |
| The data mining database has been created to allow the entry of parameters to show Minimum and Desired Productivity rates for each functional area.
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| As the data mining tools are further developed, this will also include:
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| * Historical analysis of productivity in functional areas, to learn productivity rates and predictions.
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| For more details, please consult the product road map.
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| ==Calidus ''Vision'' Front-End==
| | If you're more comfortable with documents rather than web pages, we've got you covered. |
| The Calidus ''Vision'' web front end displays the data on timed changing display, optionally displaying the data in forms, graphs and tables.
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| This supports:
| | Every page here can be downloaded as a PDF (including this one) by clicking the ''Download as PDF'' link in the toolbar, typically on the left of your browser window. That will give you the PDF of just that page, but if you want something more formal, see the {{DocLink|Main Page}} link next to the page - downloading those as PDFs will give you the formal OBS document. |
| * Productivity views (per task, per Warehouse/Owner/Employee, in days, weeks, months and quarters.
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| * System views, showing the current state of the system mined in terms of tasks outstanding.
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| * Enquiries on the data in tabular form.
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| * Graphs showing the overview system and productivity data.
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| * Client look & feel.
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| * Definable menu structure.
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| * Multiple information streams displayed on one form (2 horizontally, 2 vertically, 4 corners).
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| * Configurable timed displays (what screen are displayed, how long each is displayed).
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| * User-definable settings.
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| * User settings (limiting Company, Warehouse and Owner)
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| Platform: Windows/Linux
| | As you can see, some of the guides are multi-page, so we organise those into categories of pages. Where those pages form a guide themselves (like the Admin User Guide), you can use that ''Download as PDF'' link again from the category to get all of the pages in one handy guide. |
| Technology: IIS (Windows), ASP, ADO, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
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| ==Productivity Measurement Method==
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| One of the main functions within Vision is to collate and display productivity rates for various tasks within the mined systems. This is dependent on the data mined.
| | We keep these pages up to date based on the latest available version of ''CALIDUS'' Vision - if you see something you like here, but aren't sure whether your version supports it, why not give our team a call? We can advise you of the steps you need to take to upgrade your system to the latest and greatest. |
| The current productivity figures displayed within Vision come from the data stored within Calidus 3PL-Mobile, the OBS Logistics RF solution.
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| The detailed activity data is mined from Calidus 3PL-Mobile, which includes the following information:
| | We're constantly updating the system, and that means that we're constantly updating the documentation too. One of the great things about Wiki pages is that that history is kept, so you can click the ''View History'' link (usually at the top of the page) to see all previous versions of the help page. So, although all the guides are the latest version, you can still get at the older pages for reference. |
| * The type of activity, for example:
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| ** Task information (receipt, pick, putaway, etc).
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| ** Log-on/off information.
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| * The start date/time of the activity
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| * The end date/time of the activity
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| * Who performed the activity.
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| * For task-based information, this also includes:
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| ** Pallet information
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| ** Company/Warehouse/Owner information
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| ** Location information
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| This is mined and loaded into Calidus Vision's database, then analysed to produce productivity figures for the company, warehouse, owner and employee for the following intervals:
| | The same is true of any of the pictures that we've uploaded in these guides - click on them and you can see the whole history of that picture. You can download them as well, if you like. |
| * Daily
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| * Weekly
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| * Monthly
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| * Quarterly
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| ==Extended Productivity Measurement==
| | Of course, we also keep PDF copies of the previous version of the documentation when we've finished it, so we can always provide them to you. We've generated them from these Assist pages just like you can - because it's that easy to use. |
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| ==Initial Installation==
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| Please note: These installation notes are draft and should be used as guidelines at this stage.
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| Install MySQL database.
| | Below you'll find a link to the beginning of all of the guides in this Assist system. |
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| * mysql-5.1.39-win32.msi
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| * mysql-gui-tools-5.0-r17-win32.msi
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| * mysql-connector-odbc-5.1.5-win32.msi
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| Configure the database as InnoDB, accepting 50+ connections, with no anonymous access.<br>
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| Ensure that the database and bin areas are installed away from the root drive.<br>
| | All pages in guide: [[:Category:Vision Overview]] {{DocLink|Category:Vision Overview Doc}} |
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| '''NOTE THE ROOT PASSWORD.'''
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| If any other database is installed on the machine, change the default port for connections to 5306.<br>
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| | ==System Guide== |
| | All pages in guide: [[:Category:Vision User Guide]] {{DocLink|Category:Vision User Guide Doc}} |
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| Install IIS at this stage, if not already installed, from the Add/Remove Windows Components control panel screen ('''Note:''' IIS can also be installed as part of the Vision installation package).
| | Start here: [[System Guide]] |
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| Install the Vision package.
| | ==Vision Roadmap== |
| * File used: IN090922Vision.zip
| | Start here: [[Vision Roadmap]] |
| * '''Note:''' Install the Vision application files away from the root drive.
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| Change the default port in Connection.asp and Productivity.asp to the port number you chose for database connections when installing MySQL.
| | ==Technical Documents== |
| | | * [[:Category:Vision Coding and Release]] {{DocLink|Category:Vision Coding and Release Doc}} |
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| * Create a new web site, pointing to the virtual directory where you installed the Vision application.
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| * Change the default document to Productivity.asp
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| * Set the port for the application (Note: If there are other sites or web servers on the machine, you may need to change this or them away from the standard port 80.)
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| * Set the permissions on the database so that the default IIS user for the machine has access to the folders.
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| * Ensure that Web Service Extensions are enabled for Active Server Pages (from the IIS configuration screen, on the left below Default Web Pages).
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| * Ensure that the pages expire immediately, to force reload (this should happen automatically with server-derived pages, but better safe than sorry).
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| * For IIS 6.0 or greater, ensure that Parent Paths are enabled, by enabling the flag 'Enable Parent Paths' from the web site's properties/Home Directory/Configuration/Options screen.
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| * Stop and start the Website created.
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| Load the database structure through the MySQL Administrator.
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| * File used: {Vision}/Database/CreateDB.sql
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| Create any users with localhost permissions through the MySQL Administrator.
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| Create user permissions in the database using MySQL Query Browser.
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| Check that the system is working using a web browser.
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| ==Release Creation== | |
| Files are created in P:\RDT\Vision\_Installers\Releases In Progress.
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| All ASP files are put into the main folder, all files from sub-folders placed in an identically-named subfolder.
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| When all files are pulled together, release notes are created to the current standard - see previous releases for details. These are placed in a Releases sub-folder.
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| Zip up all the files and sub-folders, and call the patch:
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| *Vision_UP<YYMMDD>(_<Site>).zip
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| FTP the release to Jupiter using the shortcut provided.
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| Email the distribution list with details of the release, including the release notes.
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| '''Note''': Ensure that the client has been informed of the release in progress and confirmed that this can go ahead.
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| Fetch the patch from Jupiter using the provided shortcut in the Releases sub-directory.
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| Unzip the patch into a sub-folder of the same name.
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| Move into that folder and copy the entire contents.
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| '''Note''': Make a backup of the files being updated at this stage.
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| Move to the Vision root directory and paste the contents of the release, choosing to overwrite files or folders where necessary.
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| Move to the Releases folder. If there is a database upgrade file (named after the patch, with extension SQL), then install this.
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| To install database upgrade files, start MySQL Query Browser.
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| Choose 'Load Script' from the file menu.
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| Load the upgrade SQL file.
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| Choose 'Continue' from the toolbar - this will install the changes.
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| Exit the query browser.
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| Inform the client that the release has been completed.
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Welcome to the CALIDUS Vision Assist help pages.
Here you will find all kind of guides, from simple to advanced, from user guides to technical implementation guides, all to provide as much information on how to get the best out your CALIDUS Vision implementation.
Assuming you are now up and running with your system, why not try to find something you didn't know? Try clicking the 'Did You Know' link below.
Did You Know
That's how Assist works - help broken down into bite-size chunks, designed to help you make the most of your system. If you're familiar with the web, and familiar with Wiki, you're going to find it easy to get around in Assist.
If you're coming here as a new user without a clear idea of how CALIDUS Vision works or what it does, you should start with the overview - that will give you enough information so that you're clear on what we're achieving with this application. You'll find it first in the list below here.
If you're more comfortable with documents rather than web pages, we've got you covered.
Every page here can be downloaded as a PDF (including this one) by clicking the Download as PDF link in the toolbar, typically on the left of your browser window. That will give you the PDF of just that page, but if you want something more formal, see the DOC link next to the page - downloading those as PDFs will give you the formal OBS document.
As you can see, some of the guides are multi-page, so we organise those into categories of pages. Where those pages form a guide themselves (like the Admin User Guide), you can use that Download as PDF link again from the category to get all of the pages in one handy guide.
We keep these pages up to date based on the latest available version of CALIDUS Vision - if you see something you like here, but aren't sure whether your version supports it, why not give our team a call? We can advise you of the steps you need to take to upgrade your system to the latest and greatest.
We're constantly updating the system, and that means that we're constantly updating the documentation too. One of the great things about Wiki pages is that that history is kept, so you can click the View History link (usually at the top of the page) to see all previous versions of the help page. So, although all the guides are the latest version, you can still get at the older pages for reference.
The same is true of any of the pictures that we've uploaded in these guides - click on them and you can see the whole history of that picture. You can download them as well, if you like.
Of course, we also keep PDF copies of the previous version of the documentation when we've finished it, so we can always provide them to you. We've generated them from these Assist pages just like you can - because it's that easy to use.
Below you'll find a link to the beginning of all of the guides in this Assist system.
System Overview
All pages in guide: Category:Vision Overview DOC
Start here:
System Guide
All pages in guide: Category:Vision User Guide DOC
Start here: System Guide
Vision Roadmap
Start here: Vision Roadmap
Technical Documents
