Shelves Custom Widget
  • 24 Oct 2023
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Shelves Custom Widget


Article summary

Augment frontline operations experience with interactive shelves and bins

Purpose

The shelves custom widget enables Tulip app builders to create intuitive apps for material movement, work instructions, and other common operations use cases. The shelves custom widgets allows for operator interaction with a set of shelves to highlight items to select as well as notify of stock out issues
## Setup
Adding the app to the Tulip instance will automatically add the custom widget. In an app, eight parameters are required:

  1. Shelves - input number of shelves
  2. Bins per Shelf - input desired bins per shelf
  3. Bin Color - input color of all bins
  4. Highlight Color - input color for highlighted bins
  5. Stockout Color - input color for bins to flash during an event such as stockout
  6. Highlight Array - input method for selecting bins to highlight (e.g., static, array variable, table record, etc.)
  7. Stockout Array - input method for selecting bins to flash (e.g., static, array variable, table record, etc.)
  8. Select - input method for selecting bin (as input -- when clicking on bin or output -- variable to select bin

How it works

You can use the custom widget to programmatically highlight specific bins and flag for stockouts as well as enable operators to select specific bins for material movement use cases


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