How do I get the Appointment time into a patient label?

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Tee Hiett asked Aug 06 2019 at 9:33 PM Matthew Gillespie commented Aug 13 2019 at 9:42 PM

How do I get the Appointment time into a patient label?

I am using the appointment schedule shown in the attached jpg file. I would like to capture the first column value as the Appointment Time for the patient.

Thanks

Tee

Software Version:

FlexSim 19.1.1

patient labels version 19.2.1

arrivalschedule.jpg (119.7 KiB)

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Answer 1 · 2019-08-08T16:13:26Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Aug 08 2019 at 4:13 PM Matthew Gillespie commented Aug 13 2019 at 9:42 PM

Unfortunately, I don't see a good way to do this right now.

I think the best thing to do in this case would be to add another column in Excel and duplicate the first column data in this row. That way when you import the file you get another Label column in the Date Time Source's table.

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Tee Hiett commented · Aug 09 2019 at 2:18 PM

I can do that. This will import the appointment time in minutes of the day

Since patient arrival times are variable, the patient will not arrive at exactly the appointment time. I can record the patient arrival time in a label on the patient with Model.time. This will produce the patient arrival time in simulation minutes not minutes of the day.

What I want to do is to compare the patient's arrival time with the appointment have and use that information in taking the patient from the waiting room. For example, if the patient arrives 30 minutes before the appointment time I do not want that patient go back to the treatment area if there are other patients who have an appointment time before that patients appointment time.

I was thinking about using a "on reset" command such as "(Model.dateTime.hour * 60) + Model.dateTime.minute" to put the simulation start time into a global variable and use that information to adjust the ArrTime or the ApptTime.

Any suggestions? and how do I produce the "on reset" command in Version 19.210?

Thanks,

Tee

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ Tee Hiett commented · Aug 13 2019 at 9:42 PM

Oh! If you want the number value of the arrival time that's not too hard to do. On the DateTime Source activity add a label under the Assign Labels to Created Tokens section and use this line of code for the Value:

Table(getvarnode(activity, "arrivals"))[rowNumber][1]

See this example model too:

appttime.fsm

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appttime.fsm (33.3 KiB)

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