Parsing error when trying to set center location?

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night asked Oct 12, '23 night edited Oct 13, '23

Parsing error when trying to set center location?

I have the following timetables 1 and 2, for 2 shifts with different downtimes.

At 8 am - 5 pm is for operators 1-3
At 5pm - 9pm is for operators 4-9
The above is working hours of course, I had set that correctly. My issue now is if I was to set the down function (travel to location) my operators will not switch over to the other shift.
So i changed to On down I set the center location as the home base i want my operators to walk to after their shift ends, and not at their separator. But when I Set Center Location the following error popped up. Not sure what went wrong, could someone help me take a look at the error? At the same time, When setting the location, the operators all group up in one blob, is is possible to have them in line?

Capstone2_with crane&shift.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.1.3

operator timetables shift schedule

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capstone2-with-craneshift.fsm (9.4 MiB)

Answer 1 · 2023-10-12T12:56:54Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Oct 12, '23 night edited Oct 13, '23

Looks like an oversight from the developers. The involved variable that is used in the set location code in many other triggers wasn't renamed to curmember. (The other way around would also work, renaiming curmember to involved in line 19.)

In the code, you can alo use the index of the for-loop to shift each additional operator a bit further in one direction to have them appear next to each other.

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night commented · Oct 12, 2023 at 02:43 PM

Yes, thank you, changing curmember to involved does work. How do I go around with the index though?

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Felix Möhlmann night commented · Oct 12, 2023 at 05:32 PM

I already included an example in the code I posted. The index counts up by one for each member. So by including it in the coordinate parameters, each operator will be placed farther along in the respective direction. In the example I chose a distance of 0.8m between each operator in the -y-direction.

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Jeanette F ♦♦ Felix Möhlmann commented · Oct 12, 2023 at 05:38 PM

Hello @night, The for loop initializes the index at 1, when it loops it will increment the index, and it will loop until the value reached the number of members in the group. On line 19 allows you to refence the member of the group at that index. On line 20 the index is used as a multiplier for the spacing of the placement of the people. In this case it is a multiplier of the y location.

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