---
alias: user-guide-automation-task-oib-materialmoved
tags:
- automation tasks
description: "This documentation details a task that reports packaging unit chain movements within a factory"
---

# Setup Center Material Moved

The `Setup Center Material Moved` task informs when a packaging unit chain was moved.

![1562171137862](./images/material_moved_parameters.png)

## Inputs

| Name     | Data Type | Description       |
| -------- | --------- | ----------------- |
| Activate | `Any`     | Activate the task |

## Outputs

| Name    | Data Type | Description                                      |
| ------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| factoryLocation      | `String` | Name of the location inside the factory |
| action      | `String` | The type of material movement |
| source      | `String` | The source of an operation, e.g. PackagingUnitQuantityChanged event, detected within Setup Center.  |
| timestamp | `DateTime` | Date and time when the material movement happened |
| line         | `String` | The line where the moved packaging unit belongs to |
| setup   | `String` | The setup where the moved packaging unit belongs to |
| packagingUnitLocation | `Object` | The moved packaging unit and the associated component location |
| errorId      | `String` | Failure Error Id. Example: 'someId' |
| errorMessage      | `String` | Failure message. Example: 'Fatal Error Message' |
| Success | `Boolean` | Triggered when the task is executed with success |
| Error   | `Error`   | Triggered when the task failed for some reason   |

## Settings

On the `General` tab, you have the usual settings and the following settings:

| Name          | Data Type | Values | Default | Description                                                  |
| ------------- | --------- | ------ | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Auto Activate | `Boolean` |        | `true`  | On initializing the task, subscribes it to the Gate Keeper Messages. If false, only subscribes on Activate. |

![1562259678207](./images/material_moved_settings.png)

## Behavior

This task captures the SetupCenter interface, whenever a packaging unit chain was moved.

## Remarks

None.