Managing Multiple SOFs

In this example I'll go over using multiple SOFs on the same port call.

Here.

I've already validated one SOF and I want to add another.

Maybe it's an agent or the terminal or a different source of truth.

First I will click on the Upload sofs button to pull up my downloads and pick my new sof.

In this example I'm actually using the same file, but I've renamed it.

You cannot have two SOFs with the exact same name on one port call.

Now you can see it has begun parsing and you can hover over it to see an estimated time to completion.

Now that that is complete, I can see I now have this new dropdown and arrows in a star.

This star means that this current SOF that I'm on is the main.

To see all of the SOFs on this port call, I can click the dropdown or I can toggle back and forth and go to the next sof.

If you've made any changes to this SOF in your cards, it will not save if you haven't pressed the save up here and you go to a new one.

In this case I don't need to keep any of the changes so I'll actually discard them and it takes a second and the new preview is loaded.

As I mentioned, this is actually the same sof so they will match exactly until I tell it some differences.

I will change this first card to happen at 16:58 and I'm actually going to delete the time on this second card for now.

If I want to make this the primary, I can simply click on the star.

For any secondary SOFs, you will see a trash can item.

This is how you delete sofs from a port call.

You can also delete the entire port call and create a new port call to delete the sof.

but if you want to keep the port call, you simply upload the correct sof.

it as primary go back into the original sof.

I'm going to save my changes this time.

Now this is the secondary SOF and I can delete it, but in this example I want to keep both.

If I try and complete my validation at this stage, I'll get an error.

It'll say fix all validation errors before saving the file.

Now it actually does name the other file, but it can be difficult because if I go click on show errors, nothing comes up.

It doesn't show that I have any errors.

But to validate I need both files or all files to be validated.

So I'm going to go over to my new primary sof.

I'm going to toggle on show errors and the event where I deleted the date and time is now missing.

So I'm going to go ahead and add that back in.

But I'm actually going to change it a little bit so that I have an example to work with.

This happens on the 27th of July 2025, and let's say it happens at 1930 instead of 1925.

Now that the errors disappeared, my card disappears.

But I can untoggle show errors to bring everything back.

Now let me try validating by clicking Done one more time.

Perfect.

Everything worked there.

Both are validated.

And now I can see on one screen all of the events that were validated.

And on most of them they look pretty similar.

But on a couple there's actually these diverging icons.

This means that the primary, which is what's used on a majority of my events, and the secondary, the test SOF shown here when I hover over it, are diverging.

They don't quite show the same thing anymore.

If I go back to the first two examples that I changed, the primary I set at 1618 and the secondary, which was the original SOF, was showing 1718.

So I could look at these, dig into it, maybe use this as a negotiation option when working my demurrage claim.

Same thing for the second event that I manipulated.

It originally showed 1925, but the new primary sof is showing 1930.

I can go investigate why there's a difference there.

You can also hover over this little search icon to get a quick view of the SOF document if you want to investigate and see if that time makes sense.

In this case it doesn't because I changed it arbitrarily from 1925 to 1930.

Now I can easily compare two sofs and one late time, calculator.