Version 2 — 2026-09-16
Test 2 — Following an Order
- Log in to the tester harness with your personal ID and password. Press Login and select Test Data Set Kitchenware. Press Open Rodex. Wait for the link to appear and click on it. Startup can be slow, so it may take up to half a minute before Rodex starts.
- At the Rodex login screen, log in as elinj with password demo-elinj.
- You should now see three blue lines. They are here to remind you what you have recently done and what you need to do next. The colors indicate how urgent something is. Blue lines are general information, yellow lines mean that you need to take action, and red lines mean that something is very important. Sometimes you can click a line to go directly to the corresponding item.
- Look at the line saying “You have created draft purchase order 1789376608.” It is a reminder about an order that was recently created. You are logged in as Elin Johansson. She works for the customer company Hemmabord, so Elin and her colleagues are likely to order new articles every now and then.
- Hover the mouse pointer over this message and keep it still. Within a second you should see “johank created draft order 1789376608 - 2026-09-14 09:03:28 UTC”. This is a typical example of how Rodex can explain or add details to something when you rest the mouse pointer above it. You may wonder who johank is. He is a colleague or assistant to Elin. We will get back to this later.
- Please look at the next row. It says “You have issued purchase order 2.” When you hover over it, you should see “johank issued order 2 - 2026-09-14 09:03:28 UTC”. When an order is first created, it has the status of a draft order. As a draft, it gets a long temporary number, such as 1789376608. When it is issued (sent), it gets a serial number. In this case, that number is 2. So these two numbers refer to the same order.
- Now look at the third row. It says “Purchase order 2 has been confirmed.” If you hover the mouse pointer over it, you should see “erikb confirmed order 2 - 2026-09-14 09:03:28 UTC”.
- Click on the message above. You should now see a new page with the title Purchase orders. At the top you see a table with only one row in it so far. It shows order number 2. Under it, you see the full order in the Order detail box.
- Spend some time looking at this order. You do not need to change anything, but please report anything you would like to improve and any questions you have.
- Hover the mouse pointer over the Supplier NordicTable. You should now see the full company name: Nordic Table Trading AB.
- Hover the mouse pointer over the Created date 2026-09-14. It should show the exact time and the full name of the order creator.
- Hover the mouse pointer over the Article NT-BWL-220. You should now see the full article name.
- Look at the Article list. One of the column headers should have a tiny arrow next to it. This indicates the sort order. Click the headers (Article, Quantity, and so on) to see how the sort order of the articles changes.
- You have now seen a few user names. Let’s inspect them. In the menu on the left, scroll down and click Users. Here you can see three users working for this company: Elin Johansson, Johan Karlsson and Maja Lund. You can also see their main roles. We will explain these roles in more detail later, but for now note that you, Elin Johansson, are PLA — Primary Local Administrator. You are the person mainly responsible for Rodex at Hemmabord.
- Try to change the sort order of the rows in the list.
- Note that erikb is not in the list. He is the person who confirmed the order, but he works for the supplier, NordicTable.
- Log out from Rodex.
- Log in to Rodex again. This time use erikb with password demo-erikb.
- In the upper-left corner you can see erikb’s real name, Erik Berg, and his company, NordicTable. In the main area, you can see that Erik has received an order, then created his own purchase order and issued it, got it confirmed, and then confirmed the order he received first. Let’s have a look at it. Click the last line saying “You have confirmed order 2.”
- You now see a sales order. This is the one that Johan Karlsson at Hemmabord issued earlier. Feel free to look around this page. Please report questions, errors and suggestions for improvement. Log out when you are ready. It is recommended that you log out both from Rodex and from the tester harness.
Today’s testing is over. Thank you!