Quality Assurance – Find Your Duplicate Items

Runar — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 11:03:09 +0000

Detecting and correcting erroneous duplicates is important for the quality of your weight data. However, these duplicates can be difficult to find and identify. As an example, they can be same items entered twice in different weight groups or it can be two identical items in same position that were supposed to be one on starboard and one on portside. They may share the same position and weight, but not the same ID or description, or it can be items that even have different weights but are in the same positions when there should be only one weight.

ShipWeight has a dedicated function to find these cases, list them for you and make it easy for you to correct them. Here is how to do it:

Open the Items window to list your items:

On the Tools menu choose Find -> Identical Items…

This will bring up Find Items window to help you find identical items:

The combination of weight group and item number must be unique in ShipWeight, so you are not allowed to enter any items with the same combination of weight group and item number. That is a way to prevent duplicate items going into the database.

However, there can be identical items entered twice in different weight groups or it can be two identical items in same position that were supposed to be one on starboard and one on portside. They may share the same position and weight, but not the same ID or description, or it can be items that even have different weights but are in the same positions when there should be only one weight.

ShipWeight’s “Find Duplicate” function can be used to detect those.

First, you check the boxes next to the Compare Field that you determine will be used to look for identical items. For example, if you want to find any items in the database that share same Description and Weight:

Next click the Query button and the window will start to search through the project:

On the right side you can see several instances with items that share the same Description and Weight:

And if you click on the first one, you will get the details of the selection in the window below:

The detail shows that weight group E3.3.1 contains two items (00214 and 00217) with the same Description and Weight.

Now, DoubleClick on any of these two lines, and ShipWeight will bring these item to you in the Item Window where you can correct them.

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Code Enveloped Items

Runar — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 07:01:44 +0000

Wouldn’t it be useful to easily map items to a given group based on its Center of Gravity (CoG)? In ShipWeight Enterprise edition you have 99 custom codes that you can use to add custom fields to your items, in addition to the regular weight fields. If you have areas, zones, or blocks etc. you would like to add to your items, you can define the CoG min/max values when defining the custom code and then use the Code Enveloped tool in the Item window to map your items to the correct area, zone, or block etc.

When a custom code has been used for this purpose, you can check that the items are in their correct location with the Code Enveloped tool in the Main window. If you would like to know how to do this; check out the example below.

Example:
Create a custom code Area with CoG limits at subcode level.
Use this code with Code Enveloped items tool in the item window to put the items in the correct area. Show the items in the Code Envelope Viewer in the Main Window.

1. Open ShipWeight.
2. Open a project with items.
3. Open the Code Definition Window by Clicking Codes in the Main Window.
4. Create a code for Area, set Field Type to Listbox

5. Set subcodes under the Area custom code with Names Area 1, Area 2, Area 3, Area 4 and Area 5 were VCG_min and VCG_max has intervals of 5 m each and set LCG_min aft of the vessel and LCG_max in front of the vessel. Now set TCG_min starboard of the vessel and TCG_max portside of the vessel.

6.Close the Code definition window and open the Item window.
7.Click Ctrl + A to mark all the items.
8.Select Code Enveloped Items in the Items menu on the toolbar.

9. The Select Code Type window will now pop up.
10. Select C05- Area. Click OK.

11. ShipWeight will now update the Area for all the selected items.

12. Close the item window.
13. In the View menu in the main window select the Code Envelopes…

14. In the Code Envelopes window select the Code C05-Area and one of the subcodes area 1- area 5. Inspect the items in the code enveloped view or doble click an item in the item list if there are anything that need to be done on item level for a given item.

To read more about the code enveloped window check out the ShipWeight Online User Manual:

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Quality Assurance – Find Your Duplicate Items

Code Enveloped Items