Field
Description
Settings
UI Timeout
The number of minutes that Order Broker should wait before timing out a user’s inactive session. When the session times out, the screen displays an error when the user next clicks an option or attempts to navigate in Order Broker, and needs to close the browser before logging back in to Order Broker.
Your entry can be 1 to 999 minutes. Required.
The default setting is 30 minutes.
Select this option to be able to use the Routing Engine and see related screens.
Required settings:
• If you select the Use Store Connect option but not this option, this option is selected automatically.
• Order Broker requires that at least this option or the Use Vendor Portal option are selected. If you don’t select any of the module use options, the Use Routing Engine option is selected automatically.
See the Home Screen for information on screen access controlled by this setting.
Lock Out
The number of unsuccessful, sequential login attempts that triggers Order Broker to disable a user account. When a user attempts to log in with a disabled account, Order Broker displays a general error indicating that the login failed.
Example: If you set this number to 4, a user account is disabled after the entry of 4 incorrect passwords in a row.
Reset: A user’s counter is reset:
• after a successful login (for example, if there are 3 unsuccessful login attempts, followed by a successful login, the counter is reset to 0
• when you re-enable the account at the User Profiles screen or the User Profile Configuration screen
Note: If you change the user account back to Active status, the account remains disabled until the Lockout Duration specified in the User Lockout options in WebLogic has passed.
Your entry can be 1 to 99 login attempts. The default setting is 5. Required.
Select this option to be able to have the Store Connect module available and to have a process poll for new delivery or pickup orders assigned to Store Connect locations. This option also requires the Routing Engine. If you select this option and don’t select Use Routing Engine, the Use Routing Engine option is selected automatically.
See the Home Screen for information on screen access controlled by this setting.
Tenant Logo
The URL for the logo to display at the Store Connect login page at a size of 254 x 33 pixels.
Preview the logo: After entering the URL, click the preview icon (
) to preview the image at 254 x 33.
Select this option to have the Drop Ship (Supplier Direct Fulfillment) module available.
See the Home Screen for information on screen access controlled by this setting.
Account
The name of the Order Broker database. The destination specified in inbound XML messages must match this setting. The default setting is locate. Required.
Once you set the account, it should not ordinarily be changed.
Time Zone
The time zone to use when setting schedules and displaying dates and times on screens, in reports, and in email notifications. This is the retailer’s time zone, which can be different from the system time zone and the user’s time zone. See Time Zones for a discussion.
Changing the time zone: When the time zone here is reset, you should reset the following:
• New order polling schedule at the Store Connect Preferences screen
• Report schedules, through the Schedule Reports screen
• Imports, through the Schedule Imports screen
• Incremental inventory import, probable quantity update and export, and fulfilled inventory export, at the System screen
Email Settings
Email Template Path
The folder on the Order Broker server where email templates are stored.
The template path should not ordinarily be changed. The default is DOMAIN_HOME/<DOMAIN_FOLDER>/conf/emailtemplates, where DOMAIN_HOME is the location of the WebLogic domain. Required.
Retention Settings
The following settings control the number of days to retain certain types of files on a server or records in the database.
If set to 0 days: If you set one of the following to 0 days, then all files or records are purged the day after creation.
Report Files
The number of days to retain records of generated reports. After this number of days, the daily cleanup job automatically deletes the database records, so it is no longer possible to print the reports. Can be from 0 to 30 days. Required.
Pack Slip Files
The number of days to retain pack slip records for purchase orders that have been shipped through the Vendor Portal. After this number of days, the daily cleanup job automatically deletes the database records, so it is no longer possible for the vendor to print the pack slips. Can be from 0 to 30 days. Required.
Note:
• This setting does not control the retention of pack slip records generated through Store Connect. The daily cleanup job automatically deletes these database records after one day. The store associate cannot reprint pack slips using these records.
• Used only by the Supplier Direct Fulfillment module.
Data Folder Settings
Indicates where to place the pipe-delimited files containing:
• the location, product, product location (including attributes), and product barcode information for the import process.
• the interim product location updates for the incremental import process.
Ordinarily used only if you use secure FTP rather than File Storage API for Imports and Exports. In this case, this must be a shared folder that is accessible through secure FTP. Once set, this should not ordinarily be changed.
The default is /usr/share/Locate/data/ProductUploadData. The error folder includes a copy of each file in error (error records only).
For more information: See Importing Items/Products, Inventory, Barcodes, and Locations into the Database and Incremental Inventory Import.
The folder on the Order Broker server where:
• Fulfilled Quantity export: The Fulfilled Inventory Export program writes the pipe-delimited file listing recently fulfilled order lines.
• Probable quantity export: The probable quantity export writes a pipe-delimited file of updated product locations, including the probable quantity. See Updating and Exporting Probable Quantity for more information.
The default is /usr/share/Locate/data/ExportData.
Ordinarily used only if you use secure FTP rather than File Storage API for Imports and Exports. In this case, this must be a shared folder that is accessible through secure FTP. Once set, this should not ordinarily be changed.
Proximity Upload Files
The folder on the Order Broker server where Order Broker places files you upload through the Proximity Uploads screen. You use this screen to upload the .CSV (comma-separated value) files. Once set, this should not ordinarily be changed. The default is /usr/share/Locate/data/ProximityUploadData. Required.
Ordinarily used only if you use secure FTP rather than File Storage API for Imports and Exports. In this case, this must be a shared folder that is accessible through secure FTP. Once set, this should not ordinarily be changed.
Miscellaneous Settings
Geocode Address
The URL to use when generating geocode requests to determine the latitude and longitude for:
• a location, when the location is created or has its address updated, either through the New Location or Edit Location screens, or through the import process
• a customer’s address, in order to calculate proximity for an order or inventory request, such as the SubmitOrder or the LocateItems request message
If a URL is specified here, Order Broker uses the Oracle Maps Cloud Service to determine latitude or longitude. Otherwise, if this field is blank, Order Broker uses the proximity database.
Invalid URL? If the URL specified here is invalid, the error is logged in the error.log file based on your specified logging level. Also, web service request messages that require lookup of the customer address return an error indicating Customer Address not found.
Proxy required: Use of a proxy server is required to use the Oracle Maps Cloud Service. See Proxy Server Settings below for more information.
For more information: See Proximity Locator Searching for background.
Indicates the number of records to include in each batch for the product import, product location import, and incremental inventory import when Order Broker breaks the import records into batches. Does not apply to imports from Merchandising Cloud Services applications (RMFCS). The default setting is 1000, the maximum setting is 50,000, and the minimum setting is 10.
For more information: See Importing Items/Products, Inventory, Barcodes, and Locations into the Database.
Proxy Address
If your network requires a proxy server to get to external IP addresses, enter the address of the proxy server.
Proxy Port
If your network requires a proxy server to get to external IP addresses, enter the port of the proxy server.