Assigning values from a list to each token using “Assign Labels” in Process Flow

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Adam M5 asked Apr 16, '24 Jeanette F commented 16 hours ago

Assigning values from a list to each token using “Assign Labels” in Process Flow

Rim source + tire source create tokens with labels.fsmI am trying to use the “Assign Labels” activity to add a second label to token created from a “Schedule Source” activity. I am deliberately avoiding creating this second label in the Schedule Source as values for this second label will change from month to month; my desire is to change a global table.

I attempted to use the technique described by Felix in a previous question; however, when I attempt to set my Assign Label activity like this:

which is based on his use of Table(“GlobalTable1”)[tokenIndex][1] syntax/script in a Schedule Source activity,

I get the following error:

Is it possible to have the Assign Labels activity pull values from a global table and assign to the tokens?

Thanks for your time!

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FlexSim 22.2.0

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · 16 hours ago

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Answer 1 · 2024-04-16T19:43:44Z

Sam Stubbs answered Apr 16, '24 Adam M5 commented 5 days ago

The error you're getting is because the "tokenIndex" phrase is only relevant inside the Schedule Source, (it won't work inside the Assign Labels activity.) You had the right idea, it should work, but you'll want to save an Index label to your tokens that is the tokenIndex on token creation, that way you can access the index number inside the Assign Labels activity.

The Global Table reference inside your Assign Labels activity with then look something like this:
Table("GlobalTable1")[token.Index][1]

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Adam M5 commented · Apr 18 at 08:32 PM

Good afternoon @Sam Stubbs,

So in the Schedule Source activity, you are saying that I add a label like this?

When I add the label and the value is zero, this is what a resulting token looks like:

Is this correct?

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ Adam M5 commented · Apr 19 at 12:16 PM

No the value should be tokenIndex:

Also - you can just use the source's arrivals table instead of a global table. You can import to it - it just needs the format of the first three columns to be the same. If you need a reference to it in a script, it's just:

Object source=getactivity("ProcessFlow","Tire Source");
Table arrivals=getvarnode(source,"arrivals");

Update: corrected the image with label name.

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Adam M5 Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Apr 22 at 08:34 PM

Good afternoon.

In the Schedule Source activity, I assigned a label per @Jason Lightfoot suggestion:

In the Assign Label activity, I used “token.Index” for the name of the label and for value, I referenced the Global Table per @Sam Stubbs suggestion:

When running the model, I get both compiler and system console errors; when I click on an individual token, here is what one looks like:

I was expecting in the third row (after Rim Ser # and Diameter) to see "ResCode" (from my Global Table) and a respective value from the global table.

I've uploaded a newer version of the model that has the Global Table in it; the "Rim Inventory" Zone is where my focus of effort is now.

Where did I go wrong?

One operator one machine all steps with ResCode Global Table_autosave.fsm

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one-operator-one-machine-all-steps-with-rescode-gl.fsm (64.8 KiB)

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