Storage settings
This page describes the settings of a single storage and what each setting does. Changing them requires the Management permission. Which settings are available depends on the storage type.
Storage settings change how operators confirm their work. Align changes with the team before applying them during a shift.
Where to find it
- Open Management > Storages and open the storage.
- Open the three-dots menu and click Settings. The Storage settings page opens.
Settings reference
Settings for shelving storages:
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Pick by scanning | How the operator confirms each pick: Location, Container, Item, or UI button — see Scanning confirmation policies |
| Place by scanning | How the operator confirms each placement: Location or Container |
| Unload by scanning | How the operator confirms unloading: Location, Container, or UI button. Not available for flat shelving storages |
| Sensor confirmation policies | Allow confirming picks with the sensor button at the location |
| Show report before picking | Show the work order report before picking starts |
| Default amount for inventory management | The amount preselected when adjusting stock |
| Always navigate to designated location | Always guide the operator to the designated location |
| Storage assigned color | The LED color used for this storage's rack guidance. It overrides the operators' own colors during the process. Choose None to use the operators' colors — see Picker colors |
| Storage assigned device | The device that drives this storage's LEDs and sensors |
Settings for cart storages (PickCart, ISAC):
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Source confirmation | How the pick source is confirmed: Location, Container, Item, or None — see Scanning confirmation policies. This setting does not apply to work orders with a user-defined process type: for those, the cart follows the Pick by scanning setting of the shelving storage the item is taken from. Only None still applies and switches source confirmation off. The predefined PickCart process and ISAC keep using this setting in full. |
| Destination confirmation | How the cart destination is confirmed: Location, Container, or UI button |
Settings for Put Walls:
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Load completed work orders | Whether completed orders are loaded onto the wall |
| One item per time | Suggest items one at a time |
| Displayed amount preference | Which amount the screen shows during sorting |
| Place by scanning | How placements on the wall are confirmed: Location, Container, or UI button — see Scanning confirmation policies |
| Put Wall clearing policy | Whether the wall is emptied with Clear Put Wall or unloaded order by order with Unload Put Wall |
| Unload after last item scanned | Start unloading automatically after the last item |
| Unloading order | Unload by locations or in first-in-first-out order |
Settings for external shelving storages: validation of the pairing between ISAC codes and external locations, and an optional regular expression that location IDs must match.
Scanning confirmation policies
The confirmation policies of a storage are grouped under the heading Scanning confirmation policies. Each policy is a group of single-click buttons — the selected option is highlighted, and a legend explains when each option is recommended:
- Location — recommended when a location stores one container with a single item type.
- Container — recommended when a location stores multiple containers, each with a single item type.
- Item — recommended when confirmation should be done by scanning the item itself. Available for Pick by scanning on shelving storages and for Source confirmation on cart storages.
- UI button — confirms through the user interface, without scanning.
Based on the selected option, oneGRID displays warnings and recommendations when an action would interfere with it; operators can make exceptions and discard recommendations. If the recommendations are not followed, oneGRID requires additional scanning where necessary to track stock amounts correctly.
Picking work orders with a user-defined process type follows the Pick by scanning setting of the storage the item is taken from: the operator scans the location, the container, or the item, or confirms with the on-screen button. The predefined picking process does not support Item — on a storage set to Item, it asks for the location or the container as before.
These options come with restrictions:
- Container can only be selected when container tracking is enabled in the general settings — otherwise the button is disabled and the reason is shown below it: This setting cannot be used because container tracking global setting is disabled.
- Container can also only be selected while the system holds at least one container that can be scanned. Otherwise the button is greyed out with the reason This setting cannot be used because there are no containers in the system. Import or add containers to enable it. This applies to every confirmation that offers Container — Pick by scanning, Place by scanning (shelving storages and Put Walls), Unload by scanning, and the cart's Source confirmation and Destination confirmation. Storages that were already set to Container keep their setting.
- If you delete the last container that can be scanned while a storage still asks for a container scan, the deletion succeeds but ends with a warning: add containers or change the settings of those storages, otherwise such confirmations cannot be completed.
- UI button shows a warning when selected for picking or unloading: confirming without scanning does not verify the items, which matters when many different items are stored on a single location.
Picker colors
During a process, oneGRID lights up the locations in the operator's color, so several operators can work on the same storage at once and each one recognizes their own locations. When a storage has no Storage assigned color, it hands out up to 10 colors at the same time — one per operator:
Cyan, Green, Blue, Yellow, White, Magenta, Violet, Orange, Emerald Green, and Lime.
An operator gets their Assigned color from the user settings when it is free on that storage; otherwise oneGRID takes the next free color in the order above.
Violet, Orange, Emerald Green, and Lime are shown by smartLED only. smartCAP sensors cannot display them, so a location equipped with a sensor gives no confirmation light in these colors. Use them only where smartLED is installed. When you choose one of them as Storage assigned color, the page shows the warning The selected color cannot be shown by smartCAP sensors. On locations equipped with a sensor there will be no confirmation light, so use this color only where smartLED is installed.
Because the first six colors are handed out first, the four smartLED-only colors come into play when more than six operators work on a storage at once, or when an operator's assigned color is one of them.
Other functions on this page
- Ongoing processes — see which users have an active process on this storage and reset a stuck process — see A process is stuck.
- Data backup — export the current item stocks as a CSV file.
- Storage placements import — import placements from a CSV file in Normal or Overwrite mode.