Choosing ports with a GlobalTable

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Ander N2 asked Jun 10, '20 Joerg Vogel answered Jun 10, '20

Choosing ports with a GlobalTable

How can I take the destination ports of an ítem using a Global table? Is just to decide if the ítem goes to the first or to the second processor.

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Software Version:

FlexSim 20.1.0

global table flexsim 20.1.0

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Joerg Vogel commented · Jun 10, 2020 at 06:02 AM

@Ander N2, can you attach an example or a part of your table?

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Ander N2 Joerg Vogel commented · Jun 10, 2020 at 06:17 AM

Here you have an example with a table example too

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Joerg Vogel Ander N2 commented · Jun 10, 2020 at 06:30 AM

It gets easier, if you add or replace the port column with number values instead of strings.

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Answer 1 · 2020-06-10T15:10:40Z

tannerp answered Jun 10, '20

@Ander N2,

I set up the example model you attached to use port numbers as integers rather than strings, as per Jörg's suggestion. The row number of the table is determined by the "Type" label on the objects.

example (3)_2.fsm

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Answer 2 · 2020-06-10T16:59:52Z

Joerg Vogel answered Jun 10, '20

"myTab" Table to define an ID label at items and the output port for a queue.

partID	Port
100	2
200	3
300	1
400	1
500	3
600	2
700	2

Add label "anID" On Creation in source at item with value:

Table("myTab")[duniform(1,Table("myTab").numRows)][1]

Here I choose randomly one of the value of column "partID"

Queue Tab Flow Function Send to Port:

Table.query("SELECT Port FROM myTab WHERE $1.anID = partID",item)[1][1]

Here I do a table query to get the port number by a match of anID label on item with partID in global table "myTab".

Port_by_table_with_match_of_label_value_20_jv.fsm

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