Location Alias

The Location Alias field allows service providers to specify location information for various conditional booking fields through integration instead of the user interface and the Location field. You can define a way for OTM to find the Location ID from a location alias. For that, there is a parameter "Location Alias Shipment Saved Query". The default is "select DISTINCT(LOCATION_GID) from LOCATION_REFNUM WHERE (LOCATION_REFNUM_VALUE=$locationAlias)", which means OTM will look at the Location_Refnum table and search for location_gid with location_refnum_value equal to the location alias passed in. You can change this but the requirement is that the input is locationAlias and output is LOCATION_GID. If there is more than one, OTM will pick the first one.

The Location Alias field is used in multiple grids on the Online Booking/Tendering screen when accepting a shipment with conditional booking, including Conditional Booking Fields, Generated Stop Time Fields, and Inbound Errors sections.