Status of consignment shipments and original shipments

How the statuses of the consignment shipment and the original shipments change in relation to each other can be controlled using two checkboxes in the Consignment types window:

Consignment status follows status of shipments in the consignment
Status of shipments in consignment follows consignment status

One of the checkboxes must always be selected. By default, it is Status of shipments in consignment follows consignment status. It will be deselected if you select Consignment status follows status of shipments in the consignment and re-selected if you deselect Consignment status follows status of shipments in the consignment.

Both checkboxes can, however, be selected at the same time and the status of both the consignment shipment and the original shipments can then be updated based on both the consignment shipment and the original shipments.

The different combinations of checkboxes

The following are examples of how the status changes with the three different combinations that the settings can have.

Status of shipments in consignment follows consignment status

If you change the status of the consignment shipment, all the original shipments will have the same status that you are changing to.
Changing the status of an original shipment does not change the status of the consignment shipment.
You can change the status of the individual original shipments, but as soon as you change the status of the consignment shipment, all the original shipments will be given the status that you set for the consignment shipment. You can then change the status of the individual original shipments again.
If the original shipments have different statuses, and are therefore in different lists in dispatch, the consignment shipment is displayed in all lists which include original shipments. Therefore, if the status of the original shipments is different from that of the consignment, the consignment shipment is in a list that does not correspond to its status.

Consignment status follows status of shipments in the consignment

The status of the consignment shipment cannot be changed.
The original shipment with the status furthest forward in the life cycle determines the status of the consignment shipment, with the exception of Delivered.
All the original shipments, except shipments not ready for dispatch, must be unloaded in order for the consignment shipment to be assigned the Delivered status.
If the status of one of the original shipments is changed to Delivered, the consignment shipment is given the Picked up status if it does not already have it.
If the original shipments have different statuses, and are therefore in different lists in dispatch, the consignment shipment is displayed in all lists which include original shipments.

Both combined

This setting can be useful if, for example, you want the consignment shipment to be controlled by the original shipments in the pickup phase, but the original shipments to be controlled by the consignment in the unloading phase.

If you change the status of the consignment shipment, all the original shipments will be given the same status as the consignment shipment.
You can specify the status of individual original shipments. The status of the consignment shipment then changes. The original shipment with the status furthest forward in the life cycle determines the status of the consignment shipment, with the exception of Delivered.
All the original shipments, except shipments not ready for dispatch, must be unloaded in order for the consignment shipment to be assigned the Delivered status. You can, of course, set the consignment shipment as Delivered, then all the original shipments will be given the Delivered status.
If the status of one of the original shipments is changed to Delivered, the consignment shipment is given the Picked up status if it does not already have it.
If the original shipments have different statuses, and are therefore in different lists in dispatch, the consignment shipment is displayed in all lists which include original shipments.