How does the assign released resource to work?

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Patrick Zweekhorst asked May 13, '20 Matthew Gillespie commented Oct 14, '20

How does the assign released resource to work?

Hi,

How does the option assign released resource to work in the release resource activity from the people module:

With these settings I expected that a label would be created at the person with the reference to the resource. This is not the case, since I get an exception that the label does not exist. Which I understand, since it does not exist, but I thought that it would be created just like when acquiring a resource. Is that a wrong assumption?

When I noticed that exception I added a assign labels activity to make that label before the release location activity. Now no exceptions are gives, but the label value does not change.

What am I doing wrong here?

Thank you for your time.

ReleasePersonResource2.fsm

(The attached model is with the extra assign labels activity)

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.1.1

labels flexsim 20.1.1 resource people release resource

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releasepersonresource2.fsm (44.5 KiB)

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Answer 1 · 2020-09-08T22:17:50Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Sep 8, '20 Matthew Gillespie commented Oct 14, '20

This is a bug, specifically with the person keyword. You'll notice that if you switch to the Healthcare environment and try the same thing with the patient keyword it works fine. Thanks for pointing this out. We'll fix this for the next bug fix release.

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Oct 14, 2020 at 09:42 PM

@Patrick Zweekhorst This is now fixed in 20.2.3.

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Answer 2 · 2020-09-08T20:10:36Z

Jordan Johnson answered Sep 8, '20 Jordan Johnson edited Sep 8, '20

This is a long-standing issue. The issue is that assign-to fields are a little strange. Normally, the code

token.LabelName

returns the value of a label name. However, in Assign To fields, that very same syntax means instead to assert a label on the token, and set the value being assigned to that label.

It turns out that Assign To fields only work this way with tokens. This is explained in the help manual.

https://docs.flexsim.com/en/20.2/Reference/ProcessFlowObjects/SharedProperties/#AssignTo

The correct way to provide a reference label is to use code like this instead:

person.labels.assert("SomeLabel")

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Answer 3 · 2020-05-13T14:50:45Z

Regan Blackett answered May 13, '20 Patrick Zweekhorst commented Sep 7, '20

@Patrick Zweekhorst @Matthew Gillespie

I'm not sure why it doesn't work with the "person" reference but, it works with "token".

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Patrick Zweekhorst commented · Sep 07, 2020 at 06:47 AM

@regan.blackett,

Would you in that case classify this as a bug?

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