Automatic order links
How VisibleLogistics supports ad-hoc links between orders
To keep things simple, VisibleLogistics does not currently give you a way to combine, group or link multiple orders together; instead, orders are kept separate from each other. In practice, however, you may want to use separate orders in VisibleLogistics for separate consignments that are part of a larger order, or refer from one order to another in some other way.
One of the ways that VisibleLogistics gives you flexibility is that you can simply add comments to an order, which can be seen by other people who have access to the order details. As well as using comments to send messages to these third parties, you can also use comments to record additional information about an order, such as its relationship to another order.
For example, suppose that I want to add a comment that mentions another order. In this example, we just use the other order's key, VL-1, which is a straightforward way to refer to an order in VisibleLogistics.
When you view this comment, after adding it, the order key automatically becomes a hyperlink to that order, provided that it is a valid key for an order that you have permission to access. This means that creating an ad-hoc link to another order is as simple as typing some text. These automatic links also work in most of the other places you can type, such as status descriptions and shipping instructions.