Hi,
First of all kudos to Chris for organising this site! Excellent resource site!
I am using Shipment Status XMLs in my OTM implementation and noticed the following:
1) Any outbound Shipment Status XMLs from OTM are always a pass through. Meaning that if I were to recieve a Shipment Status XML from a carrier, the SAME XML previously recieved is sent when I need to generate a Shipment Status XML to another system.
2) If the user were to manually enter the shipment status via the UI, a Shipment XML is generated as an inbound transmission. And when I need to generate a Shipment Status XML to another system, that OTM generated XML is sent.
This causes problems for me because the data in these 2 different XML formats are incompatiable - for example the Carrier sends me a POD status against a EquipmentNumber, but if the user enters the POD status against an equipment via the UI, the SEquipment GID is populated instead of the EquipmentNumber.
I need to send the EquipmentNumber to an external system regardless where the shipment status is recieved.
Anyone has any ideas?
Ian