Manually sort the route sequence in Opter Driver 2.4.21

Last updated: 27 May 2025

In the image below, four shipments are shown with the order numbers 1-4.

Driving order number manually or from route optimisation

Shipments can be given an order number in two different ways:

• The traffic controller has done a route optimisation in Opter.

• The driver has manually assigned shipment numbers in Opter Driver.

Order of shipments in the shipment list

The following applies to the task list in Opter Driver:

• By default, the mission list in Opter Driver is displayed in the same order as in dispatch, i.e. according to the route optimisation.

• If the menu items Sort and Manual route sequence are displayed, you can sort the job list as you wish.

  (As of version 2.4.22 of Opter Driver, the dispatcher can set the route sequence you make in the app to be displayed in the dispatch, or not).

Driving order number from route optimisation

For shipments that have received a route number from route optimisation, the following applies when sorting the shipment list

• Menu option Sort: If the shipments have route order numbers from route optimisation, that sorting/order is the primary one. That is, if you click on Sort and choose how to sort the list, the sorting/order of the shipments that have received the order number from route optimisation will not change. The other shipments are sorted as you choose, for example according to Point in time (most recently scanned).

  If you have Sort > Order set to ↑ Ascending, the shipments that have received the route optimisation order number are displayed at the top of the list and the rest of the shipments are displayed at the bottom of the list. For more information on the Sort menu item, see Pages, tabs and menus in Opter Driver.

• Menu option Manual route sequence: If the shipments have route numbers from route optimisation, you can still give them a route number. After that, the route sequence you have specified applies.

  If you have Sort > Order set to ↑ Ascending, then the shipments that have been given the order number by the driver will appear at the top of the list and the rest of the shipments will appear at the bottom of the list.

The route sequence can be transferred to the dispatch centre

In version 2.4.21 and earlier, changes to the route sequence in Opter Driver cannot be transferred to dispatch.

If you press Manual route sequence on the menu to assign run order numbers to the shipments and save your changes, the following applies:

• The new route sequence is not transferred to the dispatch, it is only displayed in Opter Driver.

  If the shipments had route sequence numbers from route optimisation, but you give them new route sequence numbers, the route sequence you have specified will now apply. The new route sequence is only displayed in Opter Driver, (that is, not in the dispatch).

• The new route sequence is not saved on the mobile data server, so if you log out and later log back into Opter Driver, your manually entered route sequence will not be there.

Assigning an order number to one, several or all shipments

You can choose whether you want to assign an order number to one, several or all shipments in the shipment list. If you don't put order numbers on all the shipments, they will be sorted as follows

1. Manually entered driving order number. Those with the lowest queue number should be handled first (is the idea).

2. The shipments that have not been manually assigned an order number are sorted as Sort is set, for example Status or Point in time (most recently scanned).

If Order (under Sort) is set to ↑ Ascending, then shipments with manually entered order numbers will appear at the top of the list and those shipments that have not been manually assigned order numbers will be at the bottom of the list. If Order is set to ↓ Descending, the shipments will appear in reverse order in the list.

Example

Proceed as follows

To manually assign a shipment number to one, several or all shipments, proceed as follows

1. Click on the menu () and check that Sort is set as you want it. If you want the shipments with manually entered order numbers to appear at the top of the list, select ↑ Ascending.

   If it is set to ↓ Descending then you can press Sort and then press Order and it will change from ↓ Descending to ↑ Ascending. Then tap .

2. Click on Manual route sequence in the menu of the job list.

3. Tap on the shipment to which you want to assign an order number. The keyboard opens. Enter the order number you want the shipment to have.

   For example, enter the number "1". The queue number must be a whole number.

4. Tap the next shipment to which you want to assign a run order number. Enter the running order number, for example ‘2’ or ‘3’.

   • The orange circle (3) means that you can assign a run order number to the shipment, if you wish.

   • The green circles (1) and (2) indicate that you have assigned a run order number to the shipment. The number is displayed in the green circle.

   

   The image shows a task list in which we have assigned task numbers (1) and (2) to two tasks.

5. Tap the next shipment to which you want to assign a run order number. Enter the queue number, for example ‘4’ or ‘10’.

   To ensure that the queue numbers are displayed clearly in the app, do not enter queue numbers higher than “99”. For example, if you enter the run number ‘110’, it will appear as ‘11’ in the assignment list, but the shipment will be in the correct position in the list in terms of order.

6. Once you have finished making your changes to the route sequence, tap the most recently edited shipment again to make the keyboard disappear.

7. Save the manually specified route sequence by pressing the menu button () again and then pressing Save route sequence.

   Your changes will be saved and the shipments with manually specified run order numbers will now appear at the top of the list, if you selected ↑ Ascending. The rest of the shipments are sorted as before, for example by Status (and in ascending order).

The image shows the running order numbers in the light grey circles.

During loading and unloading

Shippments can be assigned a queue number in two different ways, and when this happens, the following occurs:

• If the traffic controller has optimised a route in Opter:

  • The status of the shipment is Confirmed: The order number for the collection address is shown on the shipment.

  • The status of the shipment is Picked up: The shipment now shows the dispatch sequence number for the delivery address instead.

  • (The status of the shipment is Delivered: (The order number for the delivery address is still shown on the shipment.)

• If the driver manually enters the assigned shipment sequence number in Opter Driver:

  • At the status meeting Confirmed:

    1. The status of the shipment is Confirmed: The driver assigns a dispatch number to the shipment for the collection address.

    2. The status of the shipment is then changed to Picked up: The shipment currently has no job reference number. If the driver wishes, they can assign a new dispatch number to the delivery address for the shipment.

  • At the status meeting Picked up:

    1. The status of the shipment is Picked up: The driver assigns a dispatch number to the shipment for the delivery address.

    2. (The status of the shipment is then changed to Delivered: The shipment still shows the queue number that the driver assigned to it.)

Delete or change the run order number

If you want to delete or change a run order number, do the following:

1. Follow the instructions Do this above.

   • If you want to change the shipment number, tap the shipment and enter the new number.

   • If you want to delete the queue number, tap the shipment and use the backspace key on the keyboard to delete the number.

2. Once you have saved your changes, they will appear in the task list in Opter Driver.

   Depending on the settings configured by the system administrator or the traffic controller, the changes to the route sequence are either forwarded to dispatch or are simply displayed in Opter Driver.

Undo

This is how it works if the system administrator has chosen to:

See also

• Synchronising the route sequence in Opter Driver and dispatch

• Pages, tabs and menus in Opter Driver