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The container movement log

Every container carries a log of what has happened to it. It answers the questions that come up when something is not where it should be: where did this container go, who moved it, and what put it here.

Read one thing before you read the log itself: most entries are not made by anyone pressing a button. Receiving writes an entry when it registers a container. Picking writes one when it takes a container into a task. Sorting and packing write entries as they consolidate containers. Arriving at a packing station writes one. Only a deliberate transfer produces the entry an operator recognises as their own.

That is by design — the log is a record of everything, not a record of manual work.

Two places to read it​

The Movements tab on a container card shows one container's history, newest first. This is where you look when you have a specific container in front of you.

The Container Movements list in the menu shows every container's movements in the warehouse. This is where you look when you are investigating rather than checking — which containers moved this morning, what went through packing yesterday.

The terminal has the same list, and it doubles as the entry point for moving a container there.

What a row tells you​

Each row names the container, what happened to it, where it went, which document caused it, and who recorded it when.

The event vocabulary — Created, Moved, Nested, Closed, Reopened — is explained in Container movement events, along with the four kinds of document an entry can point back to. That reference is the place to look when an event on a row is not one you recognise.

Finding what you need​

The list has a filter sheet and a sort sheet, and its columns can be shown, hidden and resized. Filters are the useful part: narrowing to one event type, one document type, or one stretch of time turns a long list into an answer.

Your column and filter choices stay as you left them the next time you open the list.

What the log is not​

It is not a document. It has no statuses, no approval, and nothing to close — nothing here can be edited, cancelled or reversed. To correct a container's position, move it again; the correction is a new entry, and both remain visible.