Fuel Dispatch

Fuel Dispatch

  • Introduction to Fuel Dispatch
    • Introduction to Fuel Dispatch
      • Understanding key terms and concepts
    • Entering orders
    • Logging in and out
    • Viewing system details
  • Fuel Dispatch directories
    • Topic directory for Fuel Dispatch
    • Video directory
    • Release notes
      • What’s New in 2024.5
      • 2024
        • 2024.4
        • 2024.3
        • 2024.2
        • 2024.1
      • 2023
        • 2023.6
        • 2023.5.1.1017 Service Pack
        • 2023.5
        • 2023.4.14.15 Service Pack
        • 2023.4
        • 2023.3
        • 2023.2
        • 2023.1.9.6 Service Pack
        • 2023.1
      • 2022
        • 2022.4.25.20 Service Pack
        • 2022.4
        • 2022.3
        • 2022.2.19.19 Service Pack
        • 2022.2
        • 2022.1
      • 2021
        • 2021.4.11.18 Service Pack
        • 2021.4.6.17 Service Pack
        • 2021.4
        • 2021.3
        • 2021.2
        • 2021.1
      • 2020
        • 2020.4 SP1
        • 2020.4
        • 2020.3 SP1
        • 2020.3
        • 2020.2 SP2
        • 2020.2 SP1
        • 2020.2
        • 2020.1 SP4
        • 2020.1 SP3
        • 2020.1 SP2
        • 2020.1 SP1
        • 2020.1
      • 2019
        • 2019.4 SP2
        • 2019.4 SP1
        • 2019.4
        • 2019.3 SP4
        • 2019.3 SP3
        • 2019.3 SP2
        • 2019.3 SP1
        • 2019.3
        • 2019.2 SP3
        • 2019.2 SP2
        • 2019.2 SP1
        • 2019.2
        • 2019.1 SP4
        • 2019.1 SP3
        • 2019.1 SP2
        • 2019.1 SP1
        • 2019.1
      • 2018
        • 2018.4
        • 2018.3
        • 2018.2
        • 2018.1
      • 2017
        • 2017.6
        • 2017.5
        • 2017.2
        • 2017.1
  • Navigation and data entry
    • Understanding basic window features
    • Choosing a window layout
    • Navigating within the application
    • Basic data entry
      • Using keyboard shortcuts
      • Accessing the mileage windows
  • Data grids
    • Using data grids
      • Filtering data in a grid
      • Working with columns
      • Grouping data in a grid
      • Exporting data
      • Printing data
      • Saving or deleting a data grid layout
  • General system setup
    • Setting default values in the order header
    • Enabling hazardous mileage lookups
    • Using record locking
    • Checking for commodity compatibility
    • Displaying stop-level information as ToolTips
    • Assigning primary and secondary trailers automatically
    • Fuel Order Import/Export Interface
    • Using Cisco Click to Call
    • Directory of other setup options
  • User profile setup
    • Setting up board security
    • Assigning a default terminal for a user
    • How board security affects retrieval of trips and drivers
  • Commodity and commodity class setup
    • Setting up commodity classes and commodities
      • Maintaining commodity data
        • Assigning colors to commodities
        • Identifying components of splash blends
        • Reviewing commodity density values
      • Commodity profile field definitions
  • Basic company profile setup
    • Entering company data
    • Company profile overview and field definitions
      • Information tab
      • Billing/Credit tab
      • Stop Info/Routing tab
      • Expirations tab
      • Notes tab
      • Contacts tab
      • Pictures tab
      • Documents tab
      • Load Requirements tab
    • Setting up parent and sub companies
    • Recording contact information
    • Maintaining notes
    • Setting up a company’s FuelQuest order transfers
  • Relationships setup
    • Establishing company or PIN code relationships
    • Setting the company relationship enforcement level
    • Managing company relationships
    • Temporarily overriding relationship enforcement levels
    • Managing PIN code relationships
    • Turning off auto-populating commodities
  • Profiles
    • Driver profile setup
      • Driver profiles
        • Driver Profiles window overview
          • Header information
          • Information tab
      • Creating driver profiles
  • Order entry
    • Introduction to order entry
    • Order entry setup
      • Limiting the Bill To company’s consignee list
    • Order entry basics
    • Changing the shipper or supplier on multiple orders
    • Copying orders
      • Creating a multi-order job
    • Assigning resources in the Call On Demand Order Entry Stop detail
    • Working with the Certificate of Analysis
    • Working with pay details
    • Tracking changes to orders
    • Recording service exceptions
    • Copying master orders
  • Load requirements
    • What are load requirements/preferences?
    • Setting up the system to use load requirements
      • Recording driver qualifications in the driver profile
      • Recording tractor accessories in the tractor profile
      • Recording trailer accessories in the trailer profile
      • Recording carrier qualifications in the carrier profile
    • Recording default load requirements
      • Recording load requirements for a company
      • Recording load requirements for a commodity
    • Recording load requirements for an order
    • Resolving load requirement conflicts when assigning resources
  • Reference numbers
    • Entering reference numbers
  • Notes
    • Entering and working with notes
  • Oil Field Order Entry
    • Oil Field Order Entry overview
    • Performing preliminary setup
    • Setting up tank profiles
    • Creating oil field orders
      • Viewing a lease’s order history
    • Using PeopleNet Crude Oil Workflow
    • Reviewing run ticket data on the Oil Field Readings tab
  • Consolidating orders
    • Consolidating orders overview
  • Dispatch views
    • Working with dispatch views
      • Temporarily modifying an order (trips)-based view
    • Creating and managing views
      • Creating and saving a new view
      • Modifying and saving an existing view
      • Deleting a view
  • Card Planner and Planning Worksheet layouts
    • Understanding dispatch board layouts
    • Setting up the Card Planner and Planning Worksheet
      • Viewing round trip times
      • Showing terminated drivers
      • Opening Call On Demand Order Entry or Oil Field Order Entry to view trip details
  • AutoPlan
    • AutoPlan Overview
  • Driver schedules
    • Introduction to scheduling drivers
    • Creating and maintaining schedule templates
    • Generating and managing driver schedules
  • Assigning resources and updating trips
    • Viewing trips and resources
    • Assigning resources to trips
      • Assigning a different tractor or trailer to a driver
    • Dispatching a trip
    • Starting or completing a trip
      • Using the Call On Demand Order Entry window
      • Understanding the Save Warnings window
    • Splitting a trip into segments
    • Using advanced sorting with forecasted orders
    • Switching the driver on a started trip
    • Resolving asset assignment conflicts
      • Load requirement conflicts
      • Expiration-related conflicts
      • Resolving incompatible commodities conflicts
    • Updating trip details
    • Preventing changes to orders in the Deadhead/Trip Editor window
  • Tracking stores in critical need of product
    • Dispatch Dashboard overview
    • Reviewing stores in critical need of product
  • Resolving cross-dump situations
    • Understanding the Cross Dump feature
  • On-Demand Forecasting
    • On-Demand Forecasting overview
  • Using Auto Complete for Dispatched orders
    • Understanding the Auto Complete Dispatched orders feature
  • Using optimization in Fuel Dispatch
    • Optimizing shifts
    • Reviewing optimization solutions
    • Working with infeasible loads and unplanned loads
  • Common dispatch features
    • Logging a driver in and out
    • Logging hours of service
    • Viewing driver calendars for a terminal
    • Recording/viewing observations about a driver
    • Viewing Asset Compartments in Card Planner and Planning Worksheet
    • Working with multi-order jobs
    • Viewing an asset’s assignment history
    • Determining point-to-point mileage
    • Changing the consignee on multiple orders
    • Viewing PeopleNet eDriver Logs entries
  • Expirations
    • What are expirations?
      • Viewing expiration warning indicators
    • Setting up the system to use expirations
    • Working with expirations
    • Terminating resources and reactivating drivers
      • Accessing records for terminated resources
  • Trailer Autoloading
    • Trailer Autoloading overview
    • Using the Learned Autoloading method
    • Using the Auto-fill Autoloading method
    • Understanding autoloading error messages
  • Inventory Services (Fuel TMS)
    • Using Inventory Services features in Fuel Dispatch
    • Entering and editing tank readings
      • Entering readings in the Quick Reading Entry window
      • Entering readings in the Forecast Order Site Review window
    • Reviewing forecasted orders
    • Calculating sales from the prior day’s first reading
      • Reviewing tank readings in the Forecast Order Review window
    • Credit hold status feature
  • Inventory control
    • Introduction to Inventory Control
    • Viewing and recording tank readings
    • Forecasting delivery needs and creating orders
  • Retrieving records in scroll windows
    • Using scroll windows to look up records
    • General setup for scroll windows
      • Activating the enhanced version of scroll windows
      • Preventing users from exporting scroll data to Microsoft Excel
      • Setting up views for scroll windows
    • Branches
    • Carriers
    • Commodities
    • Companies
    • Drivers
    • Empty Moves
    • Orders
    • Pay To
    • Reference Numbers
    • Stops
    • Third Party
    • Tractors
    • Trailers
    • Truck Stops
  • Layout security for windows, grids, and menus
    • Using layouts to add security and control user actions
    • Changing menus and toolbars
    • Customizing menus
    • Customizing toolbars
    • Defining custom commands to add to a menu or toolbar
      • Understanding the Custom Menus window
      • Associating icons with custom commands
    • Saving and deleting menus and toolbars
    • Changing a window layout
      • Basing a new layout on the factory default
      • Adding and removing fields
      • Adding a hyperlink to a window
      • Applying security to fields
      • Changing a field’s look or position
      • Controlling the tabbing sequence
      • Customizing detail tabs
    • Saving, loading, and resetting a window layout
    • Copying layouts from one database to another
    • Changing a data grid layout
    • Applying conditional formatting
      • Examples of conditional formatting
        • Highlighting specific entries in a column
        • Color-coding dispatch statuses
    • Assigning window and grid layouts
  • Company Planner
    • Introduction to the Company Planner
      • Understanding the Company Planner Setup window
    • Planning a board
      • Choosing cell types
      • Understanding publisher events
      • Understanding subscriber action types
      • Understanding how events and actions work together
    • Creating a Company Planner board
    • Implementing a Company Planner board
  • Using reports
    • Using reports in Fuel Dispatch
  • Configuration settings that are used by Fuel Dispatch
    • General Info Table settings
    • INI settings
  • Fuel Dispatch
  • Layout security for windows, grids, and menus
  • Applying conditional formatting
  • Examples of conditional formatting

Applying conditional formatting

The following examples provide some ways that you can use conditional formatting to enhance the appearance of data grids. You can also use formatting to call attention to data that meets specific criteria.

  • Highlighting specific entries in a column

  • Color-coding dispatch statuses

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