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How to view a move or payment request in the office app as a TOO or TIO

Background​

When a TOO or TIO signs in to the Office app, they see a list of moves with non-PPM shipments or payment requests, respectively. This list is filtered by default to only show moves/payment requests that have the same GBLOC as the transportation office that the TOO/TIO is assigned to. GBLOC stands for Government Bill of Lading Office Code, and represents a geographical area. GBLOCs are identified by 4 characters, such as LKNQ.

In database terms, this means the gbloc of the office_user's transportation_office must match the gbloc of the order's origin_duty_station's transportation_office.

If you don't have the app working locally, there is a mapping on the Google Drive that shows which duty stations correspond to each transportation office GBLOC.

If you do have the app working locally, you can use the following scripts to match transportation offices to duty stations:

scripts/ds-for-gbloc "Scott AFB"

This will return all duty stations with the same GBLOC as Scott AFB

scripts/to-for-gbloc "Scott AFB"

This will return all transportation offices with the same GBLOC as Scott AFB

When creating a move manually​

If you are participating in a slice demo for Transcom, or if you are testing the end-to-end flow of the app, the origin duty station you select for the service member must match the TOO/TIO's transportation office. Here's how you find out which duty station to pick:

  1. If you haven't already, create an office user with your work email (the same email you used to create a login.gov account) via the admin site, and give yourself both the TOO and TIO roles.
  2. Sign in to the admin site
  3. Look yourself up in the office users list
  4. Make a note of the name of the Transportation Office
  5. From the command line, within the mymove repo, run this script (or use this spreadsheet):
scripts/ds-for-gbloc "name of your transportation office"

For example, if your Transportation Office is Scott AFB, you would run this:

scripts/ds-for-gbloc "Scott AFB"

This will list all the duty stations with the same GBLOC as Scott AFB. As a service member, you can select any of the duty stations listed by the script as your origin duty station. A move must have at least one non-PPM shipment (HHG Longhaul, HHG Shorthaul, NTS, or NTS Release) for the move to appear in the queue when you sign in as a TOO.

Exception!​

There is a special case where the above won't work. If a service member chooses Marine Corps as their "Branch of service", then the TOO/TIO won't see the moves/payment requests unless their GBLOC is "USMC". Currently, the only transportation office with that GBLOC is Camp LeJeune (USMC). So, to test Marines moves, you will need to create a new office user with that specific transportation office. If you need to change an office user's transportation office after creating them, you can do so from the admin interface.

When using the pre-populated development data​

To skip the manual process of creating a new move and creating an office user, you can populate the development database with data using this command locally from the mymove repo:

make db_dev_e2e_populate

Once it's done, follow these steps:

  1. Run make server_run
  2. In a separate terminal tab or window, run make office_client_run
  3. When the browser launches and the site appears (it can take a minute or so), click on Local Sign In in the top right
  4. Click on the Login button next to too_tio_role@office.mil (PPM office) or too_tio_role_usmc@office.mil (PPM office) (for Marines moves)
  5. You should now see some moves
  6. To switch to the TIO role, click on Change user role in the top left, and click on Select transportation_invoicing_officer. You should now see some payment requests

How to create a new office user locally​

  1. Run make server_run
  2. In a separate terminal tab or window, run make admin_client_run
  3. Click on Local Sign In in the top right
  4. Click on Login next to any admin user listed
  5. Click on Office users in the left sidebar if it's not already selected
  6. Click on + CREATE in the top right
  7. Fill out your details, making sure to use the same email as the one you used to create a login.gov account in the sandbox server
  8. Select both the Transportation Ordering Officer and Transportation Invoicing Officer roles
  9. Select any Transportation office, or Camp LeJeune (USMC) if you want to test moves where the service member's branch of service is Marine Corps.