In my use case, I need to use specific transport based on where the item sits in a rack. For example. if an item sits in Level 1, I will use Transporter A, Level 2 Transporter B and so on. When I retrieve Item from the rack, I need to know it's location to select the right transport. How to know the location/address (mainly level in the rack) of an item I am going to retrieve? I would like to pick the right variable that contains this value so I can program my process flow.
You can access the BayID, LevelID and SlotID through the "Storage.Slot" class, which you can in turn access from the "Storage.Item" (a representation of the item in the warehousing system).
The code to do that is as follows (assuming the reference to the item is given as "token.item"):
// "First, you get the correct StorageItem" Storage.Item StorageItem = Storage.Item(token.item); // "From there, you can access the slot where it is stored" Storage.Slot StorageSlot = StorageItem.currentSlot; // "Then get the position of that slot" token.Bay = StorageSlot.bayID; token.Level = StorageSlot.levelID; token.Slot = StorageSlot.slotID; token.Address = StorageSlot.address;
If you want to access any of these values in one line (to use in the "Assign Label" activity for example) that would be:
Storage.Item(token.item).currentSlot.levelID
What exact values these will return depends on the address scheme you set for your racks. By default, bays, levels and slots are numbered (1, 2, 3, ...) in (X+, Y+, Z+) direction.
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