MEGATHREAD Target myDevices

[ClearanceMaster]

also.. my store keeps telling us that if we break our regular PDAs we will not receive any more. So if we break them all, and backroom Can't pull autofills on the mydevice.. how does this work? Are my LODS just crazy?

 

[Patty]

I actually found some pen/stylus combo pens at ocean state job lots tonight 5/$1 imprinted with some company logo, but they came in red and blue. And are a retractable pen.

Hi! I was born and raised in R. I. I know that Job Lots very well, have bought some strange items there ( like a bag of deformed dice and a bunch scotch tape with no stick) love job lot and R I!

 

[RunForACallBox]

also.. my store keeps telling us that if we break our regular PDAs we will not receive any more. So if we break them all, and backroom Can't pull autofills on the mydevice.. how does this work? Are my LODS just crazy?

All stores will only keep the 9200 PDAs (the cross hair scanner). Any older model PDAs (the straight line laser one) & LPDAs will be removed and THOSE are the ones that if they get broken or damaged and they get sent in will not be returned to the store. Any 9200 that needs to be serviced can be sent in and will be returned to the store. So no your LODs are not crazy, haha.

 

[RhettB]

Well that change was a simple setting change anyone can do on their iOS device to change from a complex password to a "simple" password.
The issue with the sign-in page is it uses Single Sign On, and not all users of SSO have only numeric usernames. We also don't have the ability to do custom keyboards (at least as of the last time we tried to do this) and the standard iOS numeric keyboard doesn't allow you to switch to the alphanumeric keyboard which is required in both search and sign on...

I'm not an Apple user, so I presumed this was a more complex issue. Any possibility of implementing a system similar to what a cashier uses for their speed pin? A barcode we can print then scan? Once upon a time when we had PDTs we could scan our team member discount card instead of typing it in. But this was when we only had RF apps available.

 

[signingminion]

^^^^^^^ This. I agree with part of it. I love how it DOESNT merge them all together. I hate having to sift through & tear apart labels and then they get mixed up. I started getting irritated. Second. I with they would gives us more options. As in to change the label size like on the PDA. Whatever it is in the system unfortunately is what I'm forced to print unless I use a PDA. Sometimes I need a Short or Cosmetic sized label.

I need to not print unit price for scale weighed meat...or change short to regular labels. I agree, I want my choices screen to print not the label I want-but the label I deserve.

 

[RunForACallBox]

I'm not an Apple user, so I presumed this was a more complex issue. Any possibility of implementing a system similar to what a cashier uses for their speed pin? A barcode we can print then scan? Once upon a time when we had PDTs we could scan our team member discount card instead of typing it in. But this was when we only had RF apps available.

You can still do this now with the PDA/LPDA. Did it ALL the time. Made a copy of my barcode pinned it on me. PDA logged me out???? *scan my barcode* back to work! Tried it on the myDevice, don't do anything with the barcode. But it would be nice to have something like that for the iPods.

Edit: works in Web apps & RF

 

[RunForACallBox]

I need to not print unit price for scale weighed meat...or change short to regular labels. I agree, I want my choices screen to print not the label I want-but the label I deserve.

Or hell sometimes I just might need a label with no PP on it. For instance, the Christmas set CD EC. They sent large label strips. The holder would only fit cosmetic labels. Obviously couldn't do it with a myDevice. Shot all labels under a batch cosmetic size with a PDA and put them up. The next day there was a REDwire saying to do this exact thing I just did. If we had no PDAs, I couldn't have done it and we might just be SOL. I don't think it's something probably widely used, but it would be nice to have.@UIguy & @OtherGuy

 

[ClearanceMaster]

All stores will only keep the 9200 PDAs (the cross hair scanner). Any older model PDAs (the straight line laser one) & LPDAs will be removed and THOSE are the ones that if they get broken or damaged and they get sent in will not be returned to the store. Any 9200 that needs to be serviced can be sent in and will be returned to the store. So no your LODs are not crazy, haha.

They actually are crazy. They claim even the 9200. We have a 9200 with the trigger broken and it keys random numbers and they won't send it in because "we won't get it back". Grrr.

 

[RhettB]

You can still do this now with the PDA/LPDA. Did it ALL the time. Made a copy of my barcode pinned it on me. PDA logged me out???? *scan my barcode* back to work! Tried it on the myDevice, don't do anything with the barcode. But it would be nice to have something like that for the iPods.

Edit: works in Web apps & RF

Last time tried it did not work, albeit years ago. I'll have to try again.

 

[RunForACallBox]

They actually are crazy. They claim even the 9200. We have a 9200 with the trigger broken and it keys random numbers and they won't send it in because "we won't get it back". Grrr.

Ok, never mind they are. Haha. They'll figure it out soon and then claim "we knew that!"

 

[LogisticsFox]

They actually are crazy. They claim even the 9200. We have a 9200 with the trigger broken and it keys random numbers and they won't send it in because "we won't get it back". Grrr.

The random character bug is caused by a short between the keypad and the backlighting and turning the backlights (blue+x, I think) usually solves the problem (unless your freezers are as dark as ours, then it makes it kind of hard to pull anything from the back half).

 

[Formina Sage]

@Sarakiel is her username. She used to post sporadically about tech-related things.

Fun fact: Despite the "Sara", the user is male and the username has ancient Judaic origins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sariel

 

[RunForACallBox]

The random character bug is caused by a short between the keypad and the backlighting and turning the backlights (blue+x, I think) usually solves the problem (unless your freezers are as dark as ours, then it makes it kind of hard to pull anything from the back half).

If I use one, or any I automatically turn it off. It messes with my eyes.

 

[mrknownothing]

Fun fact: Despite the "Sara", the user is male and the username has ancient Judaic origins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sariel

My bad. Thank you for letting me know.

 

[ClearanceMaster]

The random character bug is caused by a short between the keypad and the backlighting and turning the backlights (blue+x, I think) usually solves the problem (unless your freezers are as dark as ours, then it makes it kind of hard to pull anything from the back half).

Thank you for that! Idk how many times I printed out 33 tickets or I hit c to continue and the PDA said "cfxcksidnf" .. I told my TL the pda was cussing me out for working it so hard.. lol

 

[Patty]

The stuff you all know about the Red pda is incredible! Is there a SIMPLE guide anywhere for tech challenged? Why won't they let me use the big loss if no one else is using it? That stupid recycling never works. I think it is a prop.

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

Ck on workbench under my device on the left side. There is a training guide.

 

[NitroKing2110]

The stuff you all know about the Red pda is incredible! Is there a SIMPLE guide anywhere for tech challenged? Why won't they let me use the big loss if no one else is using it? That stupid recycling never works. I think it is a prop.

I'm trying to write a mydevice guide, I'm just limited by lack of free time and trying to make it as simple as possible.

 

[RunForACallBox]

The stuff you all know about the Red pda is incredible! Is there a SIMPLE guide anywhere for tech challenged? Why won't they let me use the big loss if no one else is using it? That stupid recycling never works. I think it is a prop.

If you go on Workbench and use the search function at the top and type in "myWork Starter Guide", it should pull a guide up that has visual pictures of every function of the myDevice aside from new function, which can be printed individually. The new guides are as follows: (just simply search these, too) SUBT process guide, STO process guide, QMOS/TOSS process guide, SDA process guide, PCV guide. Now the main guide was only supposed to be used during the initial rollout--because with updates process could change--but it's still very helpful. And like I said ALL these guides have pictures and step by step directions.

 

[Gravalpea]

So, I have been using the myDevice to backstock electronics/mmb for days now and like using it, but one problem I noticed when backstocking was the mydevice will not tell you the fill group of an item unless there is an item with the same DPCI backstocked somewhere. This is not necessarily a good thing at the moment. An example: fitbits. They are sold in electronics and sporting goods but non of them share DPCIs. If someone backstocked a fitbit with the fill group "bike" in the fill group "elec," when you go to backstock that same DPCI, you will not know the difference and create a backroom location error because the myDevice will say its fill group is "bike" only because of what is already back there. PDAs do not have this problem. If you use a myDevice to backstock something with a DPCI that is NOT currently in backstock, will take on the fillgroup of wherever you "stow"ed it. To everyone's benefit, eletronics/mmb backstocking is probably the best place to use a myDevice to backstock of how little can go wrong, but if are backstocking "toy1," "toy2," and "toy3," then things get complicated.

 

[sigma7]

I guess I don't understand what you're saying...
I get that you may not immediately know where to backstock something since the fill group is not listed if the DPCI is not already sto'd somewhere. An item's fill group doesn't just change though. A D057 (or 056 I don't really know) fitbit will always be in the ELEC fill group. A D091 (or whatever department, I'm just guessing these) fitbit will always be associated with the SPRT fill group. Backstocking a SPRT fitbit in the electronics stockroom does not turn that fitbit into an ELEC fitbit. Fill groups are determined by DPCI and DPCI alone (and really it's usually just department and class).

Furthermore, backstocking items in the wrong fill group does not create errors in and of itself. It makes your backroom less efficient to mix fill groups, but it doesn't create errors.

 

[UIguy]

If you go on Workbench and use the search function at the top and type in "myWork Starter Guide", it should pull a guide up that has visual pictures of every function of the myDevice aside from new function, which can be printed individually. The new guides are as follows: (just simply search these, too) SUBT process guide, STO process guide, QMOS/TOSS process guide, SDA process guide, PCV guide. Now the main guide was only supposed to be used during the initial rollout--because with updates process could change--but it's still very helpful. And like I said ALL these guides have pictures and step by step directions.

Are you able to play the training videos at all (within the myWork app)? They are at the bottom of the profile/settings page. Not that they're super helpful (they're pretty basic), but at least they're something.

 

[Gravalpea]

What I mean is, a PDA will clearly tell you what the fill group is for any particular DPCI, be it SPRT or HOME or SCTY whether an item is backstocked or not, but with a myDevice it will not tell you any fill group at all unless an item with the same dpci is already in the system as being backstocked. I suppose it isn't a problem if you can recognize what department number goes where, but for the team member who only has a crash course in backstocking, it could create problems at least when it comes does down to pull times.

 

[LogisticsFox]

It's not like the overnight team looks at their PDA screen anyway. If I had a dollar for every time I had to run to the other end of the backroom, to finish a batch, I wouldn't have to work for spot any more. It's like those new-aged natural baby diapers, they're almost stowed in the DIPR aisle when they're actually BB01 and those two aisles are on opposite ends of the main.

 

[OtherGuy]

So, I have been using the myDevice to backstock electronics/mmb for days now and like using it, but one problem I noticed when backstocking was the mydevice will not tell you the fill group of an item unless there is an item with the same DPCI backstocked somewhere.

Update is coming that fixes this, it's installed at just shy of half the stores currently, so if your store hasn't got the update yet it is coming very soon.