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Implant User Guide

Release Note 15/10/15

Contents

Contents (Section Numbers are listed at the bottom of the page)

Section
1 Connect Overview
1.0 Connect Website
1.1 Docket Search
1.2 Pallet Status

2 Consignment
2.1 Consignment Entry
2.2 Consignment View
2.3 Notes

3 Browse
3.0 Overview
3.1 Browse Common Features
3.2 Browse
3.3 Quick Browse
3.4 Browse Deleted

4 Reports

5 Installing a Printer
5.0 Windows Printers
5.1 Downloading drivers
5.2 Installing Printers
5.3 Connect Printer
5.4 Connect Print Components
5.5 Printer Selection
 Section 1

Connect Overview
Connect Website

TPN Connect Website

The Connect website can be found at the following website

address:

http://implant.tpnconnect.com

Enter your Username & Password and click on Log On or press the
Enter key

Due to the technologies used on the website, we recommend using

Google Chrome or Internet Explorer 11

1.0
Connect Website

Connect
Once you have logged in, this is your Home Screen. For a
breakdown of the different options, see the different Sections
below

Docket Search - Section 1.1

Reports - Section 4.0
Tools - Section 5.0
Support - Use this to download the Remote
Support and download User Guides
Log Off - Press this to Log Off

Browse - Section 3.0

Consignments - Section 2.0

1.0
Docket Search

Docket/Fuzzy Search
The Docket/Fuzzy Search allows you to search for the Connect
Docket Number or the Old Docket Number (used in Integration)

In the Docket Search at the top of the screen type in the Docket
Number and press Enter. If you use Internet Explorer, press the
Magnifier Glass as it might return an empty Search Results

The Screen shows you the most used information about the Docket.
The short code in Status is described on the next page. To open the
Consignment, double click on the row

From the dropdown list, you have the option to:

- Print Labels
- Print Notes
- Print COP Labels

Once you have selected your option, press the Go button

1.1
Pallet Status

Pallet Status
The Short Codes on the Fuzzy Search are listed below. If one of the
codes is listed with a P at the end, this means it is in a Partial status

PalletStatusDescription ShortDescription
Awaiting Collection ACO
In Transit to Collection Depot TCD
At Collection Depot ACD
In Transit to Hub ITH
At Hub ATH
In Transit to Delivery Depot TDD
At Delivery Depot ADD
Out For Delivery OFD
Delivered DEL
Returned RET
Lost LOS
At Wrong Depot AWD
Incomplete ICC

1.2
 Section 2

Consignment
Consignment Entry

Consignment Entry
To enter a Consignment press the Consignment Entry link on the
menu bar

We will now break down the Consignment Entry screen:-

The top section of Consignment Entry shows you Manifest Date

(change this is you want a future date) and the Request Depot

Consignor Details
By default it will add in your Customer account details. If you have
been set up with Sub-Accounts, you will get a list of your other
Accounts via the drop-down list

The Customer Ref (prints on Labels & Notes) is a required field, so

enter in your details, or a full stop if you don’t have one

2.1
Consignment Entry (Part II)

Delivery Details
Enter in the Postcode and Connect will bring up a list of all existing
addresses/businesses for that given Postcode

The list to the left shows available

addresses for the B76 9EH Postcode.

The 2 addresses at the top with the

Green Dots are Learnt Addresses,
these are Addresses that you have
used previously but amended a line on
the Address

Once you have selected your Address, choose your Service from the
drop-down list.

Note: Some services will require a Contact & Telephone Number

2.1
Consignment Entry (Part III)

Pallet Details
Choose the Pallet Size from the Pallet Type drop down list, enter
the Quantity & Weight, then press the TAB key to enter the Pallet.
This will put you back at entering another Pallet, you can then add
another pallet if required. If you want to complete the entry press
the Finish button. You can also use the keyboard shortcut CTRL +
ENTER

If you want to add any Special Instructions (prints on Notes) click in

the box and type in your message. If you have Limited Quantity
Freight – tick the box (circled above)

If you want to enter FVC Insurance, click on the Full Value Cover
(Set FVC) button and enter the required information on the pop-up
dialogue box

2.1
Consignment | View

Consignment View
When you enter a Consignment you will have up until Day End on
the night to amend the following:
• Customer Account
• Delivery Service
• References
• Delivery Address
• Pallet Sizes & Weights
• Delete the Consignment

Once Day End has passed , you wont be able to amend the above

2.2
Notes

Notes
You can add Notes to your Consignment at any time. To add a Note
in Consignment View click on the Add a Note button

You will then get the following pop up box

• Private - Visible to you, the customer, the collection depot and

the TPN Hub.

Enter your Note into the text box provided, then click on the Save
button

2.3
Day End

Day End
When you have added all the freight that you
have for the day, you can now Day End. This
procedure closes your Manifesting for today
and rolls it forward by 1 day

To perform a Day End:

- Go to Consignment Entry
- Press the Day End button
- Press OK, to Day End

Press the Cancel button if you don’t want to

Day End

If you have accidentally pressed the Day End

button, you will need to contact your
collecting Depot to undo it

2.4
Section 3

Browse
Browse

Browse
Browse has different options:
• Browse – This is to view information including POD and COP
• Quick Browse – This allows you to search longer date ranges but
has less information
• Browse Deleted – This shows any Deleted Consignments for
today (or a given date range)

To open a Consignment, simply Double Click anywhere on the Row

At the very bottom of any Browse screen, it shows your Total

Number of Consignments, Pallets and Weight

To see the most common features on the different Browse screens,

see the following pages

3.0
Browse Common Features

Common Features
The different screens all have different purposes, but the grid layout
they use:- have common features

Filtering
On each of the Column Headers there is a little Funnel icon, click on
it and you will get a drop-down box.

The drop-down list gives you various options,

choose your option and enter the Value in the
text box below it, then click Filter

* If you want to filter a large amount of data, apply

your Filters first then click the Browse button

Group by
If you want to group certain columns together e.g. group all of your
accounts together, Left-click drag on the Column Header to the bar
above it (see image below). To undo click on the X next to the new
button above the Column Headers

3.1
Browse Common Features (part II)

Sorting
Using the column headers you can sort by column. By default, the
grid is ordered by Docket. If you wanted to order by Service – click
on the column header

Default Order

Service Order

Click the column header once, it sorts it A-Z. Click it twice it sorts it
Z-A

Date Ranges
By default the Browse screens will show you todays freight, if you
want to change the Date Range – select the Calendar icon (circled)
and choose from the date picker or manually type in the date. Do
this for the Date From and the Date To, once you have the dates
set – press the Browse button

3.1
Browse

Browse
The Browse screen shows you any freight of yours that you have
input today (by default). On top of the general Browse features
mentioning in the preceding pages, listed below are the extras that
you can use

Tool Tips
On the page there are several little icons (circled). If you hover your
mouse over the icon it will give you a Tool Tip

Highlighted are:
• Printer – Shows whether it has been printed or not
• Clock – Shows the Time for a Timed Delivery
• Notes – Shows you any Notes against the Consignment

Other Tool Tips

If you hover over the Docket number, it shows you any Reference
Numbers, if you hover over the Post Code it shows you the Full
Address. All of these save you time by not opening the
Consignment

3.2
Browse (Part II)

Right-Click Menu
If you Left-Click a Row, to highlight it, then Right-Click it – you will
get the Quick-Option Menu. From here you can quickly Print, Hold
and view the Pallet Movement

Multiple Select
If you Hold Down the CTRL Key and Left-Click several Consignments
then Right-Click on one of them you will get a smaller set of options

You can also select the options from the top Drop Down Menu List
and then press Go

3.2
Browse (Part III)

Range Select
If you want to select a whole block of Consignments, Left-Click on
the First Consignment, hold the SHIFT Key and then Left-Click on
the Last Consignment – Connect will highlight all of the
Consignments in between. Use this for bulk Printing of Labels

Full Reference Search

This can be found in the top right of Browse. The Fuzzy Search only
searches for Consignment Numbers (Connect Docket Numbers and
3rd Party Docket Numbers). This looks at Customer Ref, Depot Ref
and Consignment Numbers, due to it’s searching more data, this
may take a little longer to bring back results

Export to Excel
If you want to export your data out, you can click on the Export to
Excel button and it will download your current Grid in an Excel
format

3.2
Browse | Quick

Browse Quick
By default, Browse Quick will display no data at all, this is designed
this way

As before, you can add as many filters as you like or none at all, the
only difference this time:- is that you can use the top line of field
entry boxes. If you want all freight that you dealt with yesterday,
just change the From and To dates and press the Browse button

Browse Quick allows you to search greater amounts of data, the

only difference between this and Browse is:- you don’t get POD or
COP information. This allows for the results to come back quicker

If you use Browse, you will pick up this screen very easily

3.3
Browse | Deleted

Browse Deleted
This screen shows you all of your freight that you have Deleted
today. As before you can change the Date Ranges and press Browse

If you accidentally deleted a consignment, you can re-instate it, just

click on the Undelete button (circled)

As with the other Browse screens, you can use the Filters to narrow
down your results

3.4
Section 4

Reports
Reports

Reports
To view your Outbound Manifest, click on the link in the left hand
pane, the Report will open up in the middle pane

Report Options
If you want to view another day’s Outbound Manifest, select the
date from the date picker (see circled above). The report will
automatically refresh

4.0
Reports (part II)

Exporting Reports
Now that you have the data you want, what can you do with it ?

At the top of every Report you have a Details bar. If you want to
Export the detail to another format, hover over the Cloud button
(highlighted)

Here you can export to PDF, Excel

and more

You can also directly Print the Report by pressing the printer icon
next to the Export button

To Page through any Report use the Navigation buttons

Beginning Page Number End

Back a Page Forward a Page

4.0
 Section 5

Installing a Printer
(Windows & Connect Guide)
Windows Printers

Installing a Windows Printer

Whether it is a GK420d or a LP2844 printer
the process to install them on a Windows
PC is the same

First unpack your printer, plug in the Power Cable and USB Cable,
attach to a powered wall socket and your PC. Switch on your Printer
and it should start to recognise it and then install a driver for it

By default Windows will install a Zdesigner Print Driver, these are

ok, but the Zebra Print Drivers have more functionality than the
standard ones

So first we need to download the drivers from the Zebra website

and install them onto the PC. See the next page on how to do this

5.0
Downloading Printer Drivers

Downloading Printer Drivers

With a new printer, you will need to download the Zebra printer
drivers from the web

Go to the Seagull Website or go to Google.com and search for

Seagull Zebra, select:
seagullscientific.com

You should get the following website,

click on the Blue Download Button

Save the file to your PC. Once

downloaded, Run… the file

Accept the Licence Agreement and click Next

Leave the Installation

Directory and click Next

• Untick the 2 Boxes and

select Finish

5.1
Installing Printers

Now that we have extracted the Zebra Printer Drivers, we can now
start to install the printer

On your PC go to Start  Devices & Printers (Windows Vista and

above). Windows XP, go to Start  Control Panel  Printers

Method One – Printer Recognised

If your printer installs ok, it will have an icon under the
Printers and Faxes section. Right-Click on the icon and
select Printer Properties (Windows XP – choose Properties)

Now click on the Advanced tab, then click New Driver

On the following screens press:

• Next (Welcome screen)
• Have Disk… (Printer Driver Selection)
• In the Install From Disk pop-up box,
type C:\Seagull into the “copy
manufacturers files from” field, then
press the OK button
• Now select your Printer:
• Zebra LP2844 or
• Zebra GK420D
• Then click on Finish
• Click on OK to close the Printer Properties window

Now follow Setting up a Windows Printer for Connect (Section x)

5.2
Installing Printers (part II)

Method Two – Printer Not Recognised

Sometimes your PC wont find the Printer Driver
and the Print will sit in the Unspecified section

To resolve this we can use the Zebra Driver Wizard

Go to My Computer  C Drive  Seagull

Then double click on the DriverWizard application

From the Driver Wizard:

• Select Install printer drivers, press Next
• Select your Printer from the list, press Next
• Give it a Printer Name and select whether you want to Share it
• Then click Finish

Now follow Setting up a Windows Printer for Connect (Section x)

5.2
Connect Printer

Setting up a Windows Printer for Connect

Now that you have the printer installed, we need to set it to work
correctly with Connect

Right-Click on the printer and select

Printing Preferences

Click on the Page Setup tab, then click

On the New button

Give it a Name of
TPNConnect

Change the Label Size to

W 100
H 200

Then press OK and OK again

to return to the Printers
Screen

We now need to check 2 other places. See the next page…

5.3
Connect Printer (part II)

..continued

From the Device & Printers screen - Right-Click on the Printer again
and select Printer Properties (Windows XP – Properties)

Click on the General tab

Click on the Preference button

Just ensure that the previous settings

are still there, if not – adjust to match
previous settings, click OK to exit

Next go to the Advanced tab, click on

Printing Defaults button

You will get the same screen again, once

again do as above and make sure the
settings are correct

Once you have checked that they all

Match, press OK to close the Printer
Properties screen and then close
Devices & Printers

5.3
Connect Printer Components

Printer Components
Now that you have your printer installed and setup, we need to
install a couple of Components to get the Connect website talking
to your printers

From the Connect website go to: Tools  Printer Settings

From there, press Print Component Setup

Then click Install Print Components

When it prompts you, press Run… On the above screen (TPN

Printing Installer V1) press the Install button. You will need to install
2 components, just keep pressing the Next button and at the end
Finish. When you return to the above screen press Close

5.4
Printer Selection

Printer Selection
Now that we have installed the Print Components, you can close
the Print Setup tab

On the Printer Setting tab, press the Load Installed printers…

button (if you use Chrome it will give you a pop up box,
tick the tick box and press the Launch button)

If you get an error - see next page

This will give you a list of your printers installed. Select your Note
printer from the dropdown and press the Add Notes Printer button,
do the same for the other 2 printers

Label Printers – Print Language

If you have a LP2844 select EPL (circled above), if you have a
GK420d select the ZPL
Then finally press the Save Printer Settings button

5.5
Printer Selection (part II)

Manually setting printers

Sometimes the Load Installed Printers… doesn’t work

If your Notes printer is your normal Windows Default Printer, you

can tick the Use Default Printer tick box

Otherwise you need to type in the name, directly into the printer
text boxes. The best way to do this is to copy the printer name, to
do this: - Right-Click on your printer choose Printer Properties
(Windows XP – Properties) click on the General tab, highlight the
Name at the top, Right-Click on it and select Copy

Then Right-Click – Paste into the Connect printer boxes. If

your printer says printer on pc (see image on right), you
need to put to type \\pcname\printername

Then finally press the Save Printer Settings button

5.5
Printer Selection (part III)

Additional Requirements
Connect uses Adobe Reader to print the Notes. This needs to be
installed on your PC and be the default application for PDF
Documents

Label Printers
The Label Printer that you enter into Connect, needs to be installed
fully onto your Windows PC. If it isn't, you will get a Win32 error

Auto Printing & Testing Prints

When you make any changes, press the Save Printer Settings
button before you do anything else

If you want to print automatically after you’ve entered a

Consignment, tick the auto print label.

To print a single Note or Label to test everything works, press the

circled buttons

5.5