This transaction releases orders to specific ship nodes, making sure that the scheduled ship nodes have enough inventory to process the order.
This transaction should be invoked after the scheduling process.
For more details, see the information provided under the releaseOrder() API in the Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation: Javadocs.
If you run the combined ‘Schedule and Release' agent, do not also run the individual Schedule or the individual Release agents.
The following are the attributes for this time-triggered transaction:
Attribute | Value |
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Base Transaction ID | RELEASE |
Base Document Type | Order |
Base Process Type | Order Fulfillment |
APIs Called | releaseOrder() |
The following are the criteria parameters for this transaction:
Parameter | Description |
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Action | Required. Triggers the transaction. If left blank, it defaults to Get, the only valid value. |
Number of Records To Buffer | Optional. Number of records to retrieve and process at one time. If left blank or specified as 0 (zero), it defaults to 5000. |
IgnoreReleaseDate | Optional. Determines whether the schedule process should ignore line release date criteria. Valid values are:
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CheckInventory | Optional. Determine whether inventory should be checked. Valid values are:
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Next Task Queue Interval | Optional. Specifies in hours how long a failed task should be suspended before it is considered for reprocessing. Defaults to 5 hours. |
ColonyID | Required in a multischema deployment where a table may exist in multiple schemas. Runs the agent for the colony. |
The following statistics are tracked for this transaction:
Statistic Name | Description |
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NumFutureDateFailures | Number of orders did not attempt to release because of future date failures. |
NumOrdersAttempted | Number of orders attempted to release. |
NumOrdersCannotBeProcessed |
Number of orders did not attempt to release because of cannot be processed failures. |
NumOrdersProcessed | Number of orders processed. |
NumOrdersReleased | Number of orders released. |
NumOrdersBackordered | Number of orders backordered. |
NumOrderLinesReleased | Number of order lines released. |
NumOrderLinesBackordered | Number of order lines backordered. |
NumReleasesCreated | Number of order releases created. |
NumOrdersCannotBeProcessed |
Number of orders that were not released due to process failure. |
If the release process results in splitting of an order line, NumOrderLinesReleased, NumOrderLinesBackordered, and NumOfReleasesCreated may result in more than one count.
For this transaction the pending job count is the number of records available to be processed by the transaction with the AVAILABLE_DATE value less than or equal to (<=) the current date value in the YFS_Task_Q table, if tasks on hold are not ready to be processed.
This transaction raises events as specified under the releaseOrder() API in the Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation: Javadocs.