Sailing Advice Report

• Sailing Advice Report
• • Parameters
  • Report View
  • • Logo
    • Address Block
    • Header Information
    • Event Details
    • Cargo Details
    • Footer

The Sailing Advice report displays the loading events and loaded bulk cargo of a selected shipment.

The report is designed to work with bulk shipment despatches that have a single sales or purchase despatch order. The despatch order must have a bill of lading date.

The report definition is stored in the SailingAdvice.xml file.

Parameters

The Sailing Advice report contains the following default parameters:

Name	Default Type	Required	Description
Start Date	Date/time picker	Y	Limits the Shipment parameter to shipments where the actual end loading => this value.
End Date	Date/time picker	Y	Limits the Shipment parameter to shipments where the actual end loading <= this value.
Shipment	Single-select list	Y	Limits the report to the selected shipment.

Report View

The Sailing Advice report has six sections:

1. Logo
2. Address Block
3. Header Information
4. Event Details
5. Cargo Details
6. Footer

Logo

The logo is retrieved from the organisation or company specified as the Logo Organisation for the BTLogo data table in the report configuration.

If no Logo Organisation is selected, the logo is retrieved from the organisation or company with an Alias2 of 'SITE'. If no such organisation or company exists, or if the organisation or company with Alias2 of 'SITE' does not contain a logo, the Datamine logo displays on the report.

Address Block

The address block displays the legal name, registration number, full business address, telephone and extension of the company associated with the despatch order on the shipment.

For a sales contract, this company is the seller. For a purchase contract, this company is the buyer.

Header Information

The report header includes the report title, the name of the vessel assigned to the shipment, and the bill of lading date of the despatch order.

Event Details

The event details section displays the events listed on the Itinerary > Events tab of the Shipment screen. Only events associated with the loading location in the shipment route and that have a start date display.

The date format is the long date format specified in the MineMarket user preferences.

Column	Description
Event	The name of the event on the Itinerary > Events tab of the Shipment screen. If the event has a comment, the comment displays after the event name.
Start Time	The start time of the event.
Start Date	The start date of the event.

Cargo Details

The cargo details section displays the following columns, with a total row for the quantities.

Column	Description
Product	The name of the movement product of the loading transaction.
Description	The description (from the Product screen) of the movement product of the loading transaction.
Hold	The name of the shipment hold used for the loading transaction.
Metric Tonnes	The mass of the loading transaction, in metric tonnes.
Long Tons	The mass of the loading transaction, in long tons.

Footer

The footer displays on every page. The footer includes the report run date and time, the version, the page number, and the total number of pages.