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Downloading a plan from dashboard to CSV
Downloading a plan from dashboard to CSV
Updated over 9 months ago

Summary: Dispatchers who use the dashboard can export all the information in a channel for a particular day to CSV if required.

There is a great deal of information that is available from the Dispatch page in the NowGo dashboard that can be seen in one particular day. Whenever you might want to have this data in CSV format, NowGo allows you to do this very easily.

1. Login to your NowGo dashboard, then click "Planning"

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2. Click Export, then select "Export CSV"

The CSV that will download has a number of fields. Here is a guide to what each of these fields represent.

Field name

Example

Details

Date

22/2/22

Start date of the current plan

End Date

22/2/22

End date of the current plan

NowGo Job Id

00000000-0000-0000-0000-00001a0a0c06

When a job is created in NowGo, it is automatically assigned an ID

NowGo Stop Id

00000000-0000-0000-0000-00001a0a0c0e

When a stop is created in NowGo, it is automatically assigned an ID. There can be more than one stop in a job

External Reference

state-20220222-001234-0001-stop-2

A reference that you've set to represent a job in NowGo. This might include information about which stop in a multi-stop job it is

Address

24 St Lawrence Ave, Edwardstown, SA, Australia

The street address for the stop

Latitude

-34.97152

The latitude identified for this address

Longitude

138.56755

The longitude identified for this address

Time Window Start

7:30

The earliest time that this stop can be completed

Time Window End

19:00

The latest time that this stop can be completed

Type

Deliver, Drop-off, Pickup, Transfer, Attend

Categorises what kind of action is required for this stop

Service Time

300

The amount of time required to complete the stop in seconds

Channel Name

ADELAIDE

The name of the channel that the plan has been created in

Outbound Delegated Channel Id

“1244”

This is the ID of the Delegated Channel that a stop has been sent to. This ID represents a Delegated Channel that you may have created.

If you cannot complete certain jobs and you delegate these jobs to someone external, this can be represented in NowGo with Delegated Channels.

Outbound Delegated Channel External Reference

“test_ext_ref”

This is your reference for the delegated channel mentioned above. External means the reference was created outside of NowGo.

Outbound Delegated Channel Name

“Test Name”

This is the your name of the delegated channel mentioned above.

Expected Start

Timestamp

This is the Estimated Time of Arrival calculated in NowGo

Completion Status

TRUE, FALSE

Indicates whether the specific stop has been completed successfully (TRUE) or not (FALSE)

Completion Time

22/2/22 8:00

If Completion Status is TRUE this is the time and date that the stop was completed

If Completion Status is FALSE this is the time and date that the stop was attempted but marked as failed

Driver Name

(01) Sean Parsons

The name entered into NowGo associated with this driver

Driver

The email address associated with this driver account

Driver Phone

61412345678

The mobile number associated with this driver account

Driver External Reference

Z12345

Your reference for this driver account

Job Number

1000

This is what allows for multi stop jobs, the different stops in a job share this number.

Sequence Number

1

This indicates the job’s place in the shift’s sequence after optimising

Job Reference

state-20220222-001234-0001

The ID that represents this job in your system.

Capacity Costs

(weight, 1000) (volume, 100)

The Left Hand Side (LHS) value in the bracket is the ext_ref of the capacity, the Right Hand Side (RHS) value is the cost of this job, always in the base unit - see below* for more info about units.

Capacity cost of this job. If the shift has a vehicle/vehicle type with capacities, then this job must not exceed capacity limits of the vehicle/vehicle type

Capacity Costs by Id

(124, 1000)

The LHS represents the ID of the capacity cost, The RHS represents the capacity cost

Requirements

(has-crane, true) (vehicle-height, 100)

The LHS value in the bracket is the ext_ref of the attribute. The RHS value in the bracket is either the boolean value or numeric value required by the job

Location Groups

example-group-1234

A representation of a physical place. example-group-1234 might be the ext ref of a depot. Locations themselves (see API) are useful for quickly assigning geographic info (i.e. address, coordinates) to a stop. Location groups are primarily used to assign additional "parking time" or "waiting time" costs for the solver.

Location Groups by Id

1234

A numeric ID generated by NowGo referring to a location group.

Vehicle Preferences

(isuzu-frr-series, allowed)
(isuzu-n-series, allowed)
(mitsubishi-triton, allowed and preferred)
(mitsubishi-fuso-canter, allowed)

This field sets out the preferred and allowed vehicle types for this job

Vehicle Preferences by Id

(1, allowed)

The left hand side (LHS) of the bracket represents the Vehicle ID. The right hand side (RHS) represents the preference status (see next field)

1 = vehicle ID

allowed = preference value

Vehicle Type Preferences

(car, allowed)
(motorcycle, disallowed)
(clown-car, preferred)
(clown-motorcycle, dispreferred)

The LHS value in the bracket is the ext_ref of the vehicle type. The RHS value in the bracket is the preference status: which can be:

  • allowed

  • disallowed

  • preferred

  • dispreferred

Vehicle Type Preferences by Id

(220, dispreferred)

The LHS represents the vehicle type ID that is generated in NowGO. The RHS represents the preference status

Stop: barcodes

“sample_barcode”

You can add whatever fields you like to the plan export CSV

Ask your Customer Success Manager to add custom fields to your stops.

The “Stop” in the header name indicates this is custom data that came from the stop object

Completion: reason

“No-ATL”

You can add whatever fields you like to the plan export CSV

Ask your Customer Success Manager to add custom fields to your stops.

The “Completion” in the header name indicates this is custom data that came from the completion object

*There are two capacity units available: Number and Weight

If you select Weight, the number specified in the CSV will be in milligrams even if you select grams or kilograms. e.g in the Capacity Settings page you select grams, in the csv you enter (weight, 1000) → in NowGo this displays as 1 gram as 1 gram = 1000 milligrams.

For the bracket format, the first item in the bracket is whatever you set as the external reference. For example, if you set your Capacity external reference to widget, in the csv you would enter (widget, number).

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