Find slot doesn't work

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Sean asked Jul 27, '22 Matthew Gillespie answered Jul 27, '22

Find slot doesn't work

Hi,

I used Delete and Copy Group Members to add Floor Storage. My question is why Find Slot in Process Flow couldn't find slot that Floor Storage was added through copy Group Members? Is there any wrong with my setting? Thank's

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FlexSim 22.2.0 (beta)

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Felix Möhlmann commented · Jul 27, 2022 at 08:36 AM

The copies made by 'createcopy()' are not being linked to the storage system.

There is probably an 'applicationcommand' for this but those are undocumented.

Adding the coupling nodes manually seems to work though. Add the following lines to the On Set trigger of the parameter:

treenode rackSystemNode = newObj.find(">variables/system").subnodes.add();
rackSystemNode.dataType = DATATYPE_COUPLING;
treenode systemRackNode = Model.find("/Tools/StorageSystem>variables/storageObjects").subnodes.add();
systemRackNode.dataType = DATATYPE_COUPLING;
nodejoin(rackSystemNode, systemRackNode);

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I'll post this as a comment so maybe a developer can have a look at this and provide a proper answer. @Matthew Gillespie

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Answer 1 · 2022-07-27T21:25:13Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Jul 27, '22

The newly created rack objects need firecreateevent() called on them for them to be registered in the Storage System. This can be done with this single line added to the end of the for loop that creates the new copies:

firecreateevent(newObj, newObj.location.x, newObj.location.y, newObj.location.z, 1);

We'll update this pickoption to include this call going forward. Thanks for pointing out this issue and sorry for the inconvenience!

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