Looking for help on how to trigger an event for all patients/patrons at a specific timestamp or other triggered event. For example, we are studying a theater where everyone would enter the lobby, execute a series of processes (i.e. coat drop, ticketing, etc) and then congregate in the lobby until 5min before a showtime and then move to their seats.
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Since you mention "patients", I assume you are working the in the HC environment and the patrons are controlled in a process flow.
If each patron is done with all other activities when the event is supposed to trigger, you could simply use a Delay activity, set to delay the token until a specified time. The attached model assumes that the start time is given as a decimal hour value on the token. By determining the current time of day in the model, the delay time can be given as the difference between the current time and the start time.
If the patrons might still be busy with other activities, you can create a child token of the patrons token. Then this child token waits until the start time is reached and moves the main token from its current activity to a set point via the "Release" activity (found under "Preemption"). Note that depending on what activities the patron is currently doing this can lead to errors.
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