Using Conterminal on a phone

The mobile menu and its primary items

The trigger is a small square button labeled Menu in the top-right corner of the Conterminal status strip. It exists only below 768 pixels. Tapping it opens a drawer from the right, headed Menu, with a Close button.

The drawer caps the top tier at four items

Under the heading Work you get at most four destinations. That cap is fixed in the navigation model; it is not configurable and it does not grow with your permissions. Everything else you can reach is pushed into collapsible groups below it.

Which four you get depends on your workspace type. Conterminal asks for a preferred list first, then fills any remaining slots from the top of your normal navigation order:

Carrier workspaces

Home, Task Queue, Container Dashboard, Vessel Tracking.

Importer (BCO) workspaces

Home, Document Review, Delivery Appointments, Vessel Tracking.

Broker and forwarder workspaces

Home, Document Review, Vessel Tracking, and then whatever comes next in your navigation — commonly Billing.

Platform workspaces

Home, LongShorty, Companies, Users.

Everything else lives in groups

Below the four primary items you get collapsed group headers. Tenant workspaces see up to three: More work for the rest of your navigation, Workspace for administration and workspace tools, and More for anything left over. Platform workspaces get More work followed by the same platform group names used on the desktop rail, then Workspace.

1. A group opens on its own if the page you are currently on is inside it, so you can always see where you are.
2. Tapping a group header toggles it. The chevron rotates when it is open.
3. Tapping any destination navigates and closes the drawer. You do not have to close it yourself.
4. Group expansion resets every time you navigate. If you open More work, go somewhere, and come back, it will be collapsed again. There is no way to pin a group open.

Every route in your workspace appears exactly once across the primary tier and the groups — the model removes duplicates before it builds the list. If a page is genuinely missing from the drawer, it is a permissions problem, not a mobile-layout problem. See why a page shows Access Denied.

Search, account, and sign out

If your workspace has tracking search, it sits at the top of the drawer under the label Search everything, with the placeholder Container, M/B/L, company, terminal…. Carrier workspaces and active external operations workspaces get it; other workspaces do not, and for them there is no search on a phone at all.

The bottom of the drawer is pinned and does not scroll with the route list. It shows your initials, your name, and your organization, with two half-width buttons: Settings and Sign out.

Section pickers

Screens that stack several panels side by side on desktop do not stack them vertically on a phone. Instead they show one panel and put a labeled dropdown above it. The label tells you which axis you are choosing on, and every option that exists on desktop is in the list — nothing is dropped.

Settings area

On Settings. Always Profile, Security, Email aliases, LFD email scanning, Reporting defaults, and Notifications. AI connections appears only where it is enabled or you already have a connection, Delivery-order review only in forwarder workspaces, and Received confirmation only in trucker workspaces.

Terminal area

On a terminal page. Overview, Cameras, Vessel Schedule, and Empty Returns in a tenant workspace; Rows, Cameras, Profile, and Mappings on the platform terminal screen.

Adapter area

On a LongShorty adapter page. Health, Tenants, Terminals, Mappings, Coverage, and Rules.

Current queue

On Document Review. The horizontal queue strip becomes a select carrying each queue's count in the option text — for example Delivery Orders (12). Choosing one navigates.

Current view

The shared tab strip used across operations screens. Below 640 pixels the tabs collapse into one select.

Planning lane

On the dispatch scheduling board. Instead of three lanes side by side you pick one, and move work between lanes with a Move load control rather than dragging.

A few screens use a different disclosure instead of a dropdown. The importer shipments screen puts its view choice and its filters in collapsed View: and Filters expanders. The dispatch board replaces its segmented arrangement control with a single select reading By Location, By Consignee, or By Driver, and moves its search into a labeled Search work field inside the filter popover.

Tables become cards

Conterminal does not let you scroll a wide table sideways on a phone. Below 768 pixels the table is replaced — not shrunk — by a list of cards, one per row. The card is a deliberate subset: the fields you need to identify and triage the row, and one primary action.

1. Identity and status come first. The watchlist card leads with the container number, then the status chip, then holds, before it shows Party, Route, and Next. The company directory card leads with the party type, then the company name. The staff card leads with the role badge, then the person.
2. There is exactly one blue button. Each card carries a single full-width primary action — Manage company, Edit profile, View details, Open Company, Open provider, Open timecard. Anything else that row can do is behind the actions menu in the card's top-right corner.
3. Detail is collapsed, not deleted. An invoice line shows its description and total, then a Line details expander holding Quantity, Rate, and FSC. A timecard summary carries More timecard details. A tracking-import review row carries Source and normalized values.
4. Some columns really are desktop-only. The platform company card drops the inline users preview and the timeline; the platform user card drops the full membership and role lists in favor of a one-line summary. If you need those, you need a wider screen.
5. Batch actions dock to the bottom. Where a screen supports selecting several rows, the confirm button is fixed above the home indicator — for example Generate Invoice on the unbilled queue and Confirm 3 rows on a tracking import — so it stays reachable while you scroll the list.

Filters become a sheet

Billing is the screen that uses a real filter sheet. The sidebar full of filter groups is replaced by a Filters button carrying a badge with the number of filters currently applied. Tapping it slides a panel in from the left, titled Filters, containing the same sidebar you would see on a desktop. It closes with a Show Results button along the bottom.

1. The sheet is full-width below 640 pixels and 340 pixels wide above it.
2. The badge counts only the sidebar filters. Status and date-range filters live in the top bar and are not included in that number.
3. Status collapses separately into its own Status select, with All statuses at the top and each status showing its count.
4. If you had already selected several statuses on a desktop, the phone select shows a disabled option reading 3 statuses selected rather than pretending one is chosen. Picking any single status replaces the whole multi-select.

There is no app to install

A home-screen bookmark is still worth making — it saves you typing the address — but treat it as a shortcut and nothing more. Sign-in works the same way it does on a laptop, through an emailed code, and your session lives in the browser you opened the link in. If you request a code on your phone and open the email on your desktop, you will be signed in on the desktop. See signing in and finding your workspace.

Pinch-zoom is deliberately left on. The page declares a device-width viewport that extends into the display cutout area, and it does not lock the zoom level, so you can magnify a dense card or a long container number without fighting the page.

What is not practical on a phone

These are not bugs and they are not going to be fixed by rotating the phone. They are places where the desktop interaction has no honest small-screen equivalent, and Conterminal substitutes something narrower rather than shipping a broken version.

Dragging loads onto drivers

Drag and drop on the dispatch card grid is switched off entirely below 768 pixels, and only ever works in the Driver arrangement. On a phone you move work with the Move load control on the scheduling board instead. Nothing is lost, but bulk re-planning by feel is a desk job.

The Shipment Status grid

The spreadsheet-style report grid — column resizing, pinning, the wide table frame — is not built at all on a phone. You get a scrolling list of shipments, a view selector, a row count, and a CSV export button. Build and save your views on a desktop, then pick them on the phone.

Wide reference matrices

The LongShorty rules coverage matrix is an 860-pixel-wide table and stays desktop-only. On a phone you pick one adapter first, then browse its rules as compact cards.

Reading the vessel map

On Water keeps both the map and the vessel list on one naturally scrolling page, but the map is capped at roughly 40 percent of screen height. It is fine for confirming a vessel; it is not a planning surface.

Printing

Batch print builds a merged PDF in an embedded frame and asks the browser to open a print dialog. Mobile browsers frequently ignore that request. Use the Open PDF button and print or share from your phone's own PDF viewer.

Long editing sessions

Tracking-import review, scheduling receiver setup, and similar multi-field screens stage one item at a time on a phone and label every field permanently. They work, but they are built for fixing two or three rows, not for working a backlog.

The realistic phone jobs are: checking whether a container moved, reading a last free day, confirming an appointment, looking up a company or terminal, clearing a small Document Review queue, and answering a question from a driver. Everything that involves comparing many rows at once belongs on a wider screen.

Troubleshooting