User Preferences

Changes the default date that appears when the dock manager first opens. If you enter a negative number, the dock manager displays a date in the past. For example, if you enter a -2 and today's date is 02/22, then the date first displayed on the dock manager is 02/20.

The user preference values override the values defined on locations.

The user preference values override the values defined on locations for the Appointment View Start Time (minutes) field.

This value is considered only when a value is set in user preference for 'Appointment View Start Time'.

Yes

No

Used with the Language preference to specify a variant of a language that applies to a certain country (for example, Canadian French or European French). Specifying the country i.e., France or Canada determines which variation of the language is used.

Note: For invalid combinations of the country and language preferences (for example, Spain and French), the language preference overrides the country preference. Invalid combinations may cause performance issues.

• Brazil
• Canada
• China
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Italy
• Japan
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland
• Republic of Korea
• Russia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• Turkey
• United States

More than 75 international currencies.

Note: Some screens, such as the driver work invoice, do not follow the user preference. They follow what is defined on the manager layout.

Valid values include TI standard dashboards, the Logistics Network Modeling Intelligence dashboard, and the GTI standard dashboard that are shipped with Oracle Transportation Management as well as user-defined dashboards that you define in dashboard preferences. Options that ship with Oracle Transportation Management are:

• Carrier Scorecard Dashboard (TI only)
• GTI Dashboard (GTI only)
• Logistics Network Modeling Dashboard (LNM only)
• LSP Customer Dashboard (TI only)
• LSP Host Dashboard (TI only)
• Main Dashboard (TI only)
• Network Dashboard (TI only)
• Servprov Main Dashboard (TI only)
• System Dashboard (TI only)
• Tender Dashboard (TI only)
• Transit Time Variability Dashboard (TI only)

Note: A user can only have one default dashboard set at a time. As a result, a single user cannot have both a TI default dashboard and a GTI default dashboard. See Accessing TI, LNM, and/or GTI Dashboards for complete details.

To view the TI/LNM/GTI dashboards, create one user with access to TI and set their dashboard preference to point to the TI dashboard. Then, create a second user with access to GTI and set their dashboard preference to point to the GTI dashboard. Next, create a third user with access to LNM and set their dashboard preference to point to the Logistics Network Modeling dashboard.

Sunday

Monday

On

Off

Yes

No

If set to Yes, rate records and accessorial costs will display in the currency in which they were entered, not in the currency defined in user preferences. Not applicable to manager layout screens or the results pages.

Note: This is for rates and does not affect costs displayed on shipments.

Yes

No

Yes

No

• Miles
• Nautical Miles
• Kilometers

• Seconds
• Minutes
• Hours
• Days
• Weeks

Replace Current Window

Always Open New Window

Always Open in Same Window

Controls the maximum of records that appear per page on any business object Results page. This is for all finders. You can also define the number of records per page to display for a specific finder for user-defined screen sets. That is defined in the Screen Set manager, Results tab.

1. Note: You should not configure this setting over 200 records.

Lets you define how you want to describe the order in terms of ship units or line items.

Select Ship Unit to define packaging characteristics. For example, you can describe the order in terms of pallets, boxes, instead of specific line items. If you define a ship unit, you can optionally specify the line items that are included in it.

Select Line to define individual line items.

To let the user decide at the time of creation, select Both.

Both

Line

Ship Unit

Enable/disable searching on saved queries/searches in the Global Search field in the Unified Global Header.

Default is Yes which allows you to search on saved queries/searches.

Yes

No

Home Display Screen

Determines what you first see when you log into the system. Home Workbench Layout ID (below) and the optional feature DISPLAY ASK ORACLE ON HOME also control what appears on the home screen.

Note: The ask Oracle mentioned here is not the same as the Ask Oracle menu.

Options are:

• Ask Oracle - Product Map
• Ask Oracle - Suggestion List
• Springboard

The language of field names, buttons, icons, and other text elements in the user interface. The language preference does not change menu items and text outside the Oracle Transportation Management window or the language of text saved in entry fields.

In some instances, there is more than one variation of a language based on the country. For example, there is European French and Canadian French. In that case, you must create another user preference for Country, in addition to the one for Language.

Note: For invalid combinations of the country and language preferences (for example, Spain and Swedish), the language preference overrides the country preference. Invalid combinations may cause performance issues.

For reports, you also must specify the country user preference as well as the language user preference.

Note: Some supported languages require special computer configuration.

Note: Fax, Online Help, Training Materials, and Documentation are only supported in English.

Supported Languages (23C translation basis):

• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Dutch
• English
• Finnish
• French (Canadian)
• French (European)
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese (Simplified)
• Russian
• Spanish (World Wide)
• Swedish
• Thai
• Turkish

• Centimeters
• Inches
• Feet
• Yards
• Meters

Note: Due to the deprecation, this use preference no longer has a function.

Note: Due to the deprecation, this use preference no longer has a function.

Allows you to specify a parameter set as a default. This is more specific than defining it at the domain. This parameter set defaults to the Ignore Constraints page where it can be overridden.

Note: For some actions, OTM uses the Parameter Set defined in a user's preference, if it exists. Otherwise, OTM uses the Parameter Set defined as the default for the domain (in Domain Settings). For all other actions, OTM does not check to see if a user has a Parameter Set defined in their preference. Only the Domain Settings parameter set are used. Here are the actions that use the parameter set from user preference first, then from domain:

• All the fleet actions
• Unassign order release
• Move order to shipment
• Resequence stops
• Collapse order movement
• Split order movement
• Create relay order movement
• Move to Shipment
• Unassign Order Movement

The other actions do not look at the parameter set from the user preference.

• RAIL_RATE_INQUIRY
• OCEAN_RATE_INQUIRY
• RATE_INQUIRY

For more information, see the Configuration of Rail and Ocean Rate Inquiry section in the Ask Oracle About Rates topic.

By default, the query section is visible. If you change this preference to Hidden, the query section is hidden and you see the Toggle Query Line icon.

Default: Visible

RIQ Configuration Preference

Set the logic configuration to use for the Rate Inquiry page.

Actual Cost

Commitment Allocation

Commitment Count

Transit Time

Service Preference ID

This controls which parameters are to be observed during GTM screening. See Service Preference and Service Parameter.

Show Date format hint

Controls if you will see the data/time format hint on date time fields on finders and managers.

Yes

No

Yes

Miles per Hour

Kilometers per Hour

Fahrenheit

Kelvin

Celsius

This preference is used only for branding purposes and local themes.

The value in this preference represents the directory structure of the client XSL, with slashes between the directory names. If this user preference is blank or has the value of default, the standard Oracle Transportation Management XSL is used.

The directory represented by the user preference for client XSL files is checked when loading each XSL stylesheet. If the file is not found, Oracle Transportation Management reverts back to the previous directory in the list. It will do this until reaching the standard Oracle Transportation Management files.

You can also configure XSL for each menu link.

You can use this preference to assign a local theme to a specific user. If the user preference is set to point to a local theme that setting overrides any global themes.

hh:mm a z: 11:59 p.m. EST

hh:mm a: 11:59 p.m.

hh:mm: 23:59

hh:mm z: 23:59 EST

The time zone used to calculate time records.

Usually OTM associates the user entered date/time with the time zone of the related location. The time zone of the user preference is used only when the related location cannot be determined.

There is a time zone property to address a limitation within Java. It is primarily for Australia.

Yes

No

No

Volume

The unit of measure for volume (H x W x L).

• Cubic Feet
• Liters
• Cubic Meters
• Gallons
• Canadian Gallon
• Cubic Yards
• Cubic Inches

Cubic Feet

Web Proxy

This allows you to define a URL to link into Oracle Transportation Management when reverse proxy is used. For example, you may send out a tender notification. The shipper then logs into Oracle Transportation Management to accept/reject the notification. If they use reverse proxy, when they click on the URL link in the received email, the link brings the user to the web server specified by the web proxy. This is a list box and only existing web proxies can be selected. Additional web proxies can only be added via CSV, staged or SQL updates.

Weight

The unit of measure for weight.

• Pound
• Kilogram
• Metric Ton
• Ton
• Kilopound

Pound