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CreateShipment

Creates a DPD Shipping Label

For accessing the DPD-Shipping brixxbox interface the DPD services need the following setup values (configuration -> settings).

DPDUserCredentialsCloudUserID
DPDUserCredentialsToken
DPDPartnerCredentialsName
DPDPartnerCredentialsToken

If no settings are available, a sample label will be generated.

Incomming Information

To create labels three groups of information are available:

1. OrderSettings with the following fields (If the group is not present default values will be assumed)
- language: Values „de_DE“ or „en_EN“ are allowed. If nothing is set „de_DE“ will be assumed.
- ShipDate: if not available will be set to „today“
- LabelSize: „PDF_A4“ or „PDF_A6“. If nothing is set „PDF_A4“ will be assumed.
- LabelStartPosition: “UpperLeft“, „UpperRight“, „LowerLeft“, „LowerRigh“
2. ShipAddress:
- Company
- Gender
- Salutation
- FirstName
- LastName
- Name
- Street
- HouseNo
- ZipCode
- City
- Country
- State
- Phone
- Mail
3. ParcelData:
- YourInternalID: should be set to your own reference (e.g. order no). if no value is provided a timestamp will be set.
- Content
- Weight: in kg
- Reference1
- Reference2
- ShipService: set to a valid DPD-Service. If nothing is set “Classic” will be assumed.

Detailed informationen for field usage can be found at https://esolutions.dpd.com/dokumente/DPD_Cloud_Service_Webservice_Dokumentation_DE.pdf

Returning Information

In case of success (status 200) the following fields are returned
- ParcelNo: The DPD generated ID. This will be used for further references to this shipment.
- YourInternalID: The same ID that was provided for the request
- TimeStamp: an informational time stamp when the request was processed
- LabelData: this is a blob response. It contains the actual label in PDF format and can directly be used for further processing. E.g. “brixxApi.printBlob(LabelPDF);”
In case of error (status 400) the following fields are returned:
- TimeStamp: an informational time stamp when the request was processed
- ErrorDataList: an array with detailed information what went wrong. Every error will show the following fields
  - ErrorID: an internal error no
  - ErrorCode: an internal error code
  - ErrorMsgShort: Error information short version
  - ErrorMsgLong: Error information long version

Example Usages

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/This example is minimalistic and will create a sample label. 
/You need to check which fields are relevant for your process and assign the values accordingly.
/----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

var result = await brixxApi.businessBrixx({
      functionName:"DPDShipping",
      methodName: "CreateShipment",
	  ShipAddress : {
		Company: 'Mustermann AG',
		Name: 'Max Mustermann',
		Street: 'Wailandtstr.',
		HouseNo: '1',
		ZipCode: '63741',
		City: 'Aschaffenburg',
		Country: 'DEU'
	  },
	  ParcelData : {
		Reference1: 'Customer email',
		Content: 'Order number',
		Weight: '13.5'
      }
      });
console.log("Parcel Number: " + result.ParcelNo)
brixxApi.printBlob(result.LabelData);


/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/This example uses all fields
/You need to check which fields are relevant for your process and assign the values accordingly.
/----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
var result = await brixxApi.businessBrixx({
      functionName:"DPDShipping",
      methodName: "CreateShipment",
			OrderSettings : {
				language: 'de_DE',
				LabelSize : 'PDF_A4',
				LabelStartPosition : 'UpperLeft',
				ShipDate : app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue")
			  },
			ShipAddress : {
				Company: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				Gender: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				Salutation: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				FirstName: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				LastName: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				Name: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				Street: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				HouseNo: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				ZipCode: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				City: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				Country: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				State: '',
				Phone: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				Mail: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue")			  
			  },
			ParcelData : {
				Reference1: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				Reference2: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				Content: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				Weight: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				YourInternalID: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue"),
				ShipService: app.getFieldValue("SomeFieldValue")			  
			  }
      });
console.log("Parcel Number: " + result.ParcelNo)
brixxApi.printBlob(result.LabelData);