I always got alerts on the PDA and right that instant, too. I mean every once in a while they would ding and crash out the PDA, but still. I missed like 4 meal alerts today. And I'm like what in the world. No, I'm not a LOD, but with the new update it lets me log in as one mainly so that I can assist with alerts. Because sometimes I will get FF alerts and no one else will so I call it out.
I meant the logoff timeout on the PDAs was much shorter when alerts were integrated. Sometimes it was as low as 15 minutes. I guess it isn't an issue if you're constantly using a PDA or you remember to click on something every so often to keep it logged in. Redwire stays logged in the background for a lot longer, and I haven't noticed any issues with reliability of alerts (although that may differ with your store's wifi network, you may have some dead zones).
It's possible, REDwire doesn't log out like 2 seconds after opening the app like it used to. We need better network reliability.
-every store ever
With my device you scan the item then hit fill. It shows every location the item is in. You scroll horizontally to the one you are in, tell it how many you see and it will tell you how many will pull to fill capacity. You then scroll to the next location and do the same, it will give you the total number being pulled for both locations. Takes a bit, but it's not too horrible.
I'm sorry, but yes; the MyDevices do show multiple locations. And the 'app' being used is MyWork; there is no 'research' app separate from MyWork on the MyDevices.
The app I was describing was my work. Not all our devices had research added to them.
Thank you! I was going to post pictures but I ended up forgetting.
It's Find My iPod, but the iPods don't have Apple IDs associated with them though and if I'm not mistaken thats what you have to have to use that feature.
Yeah, I figured that would be the case. I wish apple catered to the corporate world a little more.
I'm sure their MDM solution has something like this built in, what I'd be more concerned about is how easy it would be to just reset the iPod and...have a new iPod. Unless the MDM activates apple's activation lock, there isn't really anything stopping someone from doing that.
Their devices weren't meant for corporate use, they had to adapt to corporations wanting to use their devices. They were never built for retail or logistics work as they are being used here. The reason the company went with windows CE is because that's a good platform for the work that was being done (the overall design of webapps sucks though, rendering a webpage instead of having it as native software is much slower).
So that's what that draft was...I am a bit of a computer nerd sometimes, although I don't have any actual skills that would allow me to get into the field (and it's not my preferred field of work anyway).
Every time I visit friends at home depot I get angrier and angrier that target is forcing their piece of crap ipods on us.
They have their PDA, walkie, and phone combined? It's almost like they got those MC40 androids and...actually used all the features...like our LPDAs have (they could be used as a phone if they didn't suck so much). So yeah, this is what you get when cheap > efficiency/usefulness (which would save money in the long run, but spot doesn't know about that 😛).
Not sure on the new androids but the Motorola lpda they replaced had it all. I was a vendor when they got them and I had to learn how to turn the phone and walkie off if I didn't want then calling me constantly.