You can get to the Control Point Connections page by right-clicking on a Path or Control Point and choosing AGV Network Properties.
A detailed conceptual explanation of Control Point Connections can be found in Tutorial Lesson 2.
For each Control Point Connection, you can define whether or not its visible in the 3D view, and its color. You can also add, remove, and rename connections as needed.
Using Lists
If you check the List box for a connection, all of those connections in the model will be added to a global partitioned list. This allows you to easily define AGV control logic through Process Flow. When an AGV arrives at a given destination, you can decide what to do by pulling from various list partitions associated with the AGV's current control point, such as, find a control point near here that has work that the AGV can do, or find a parking spot to go to, or continue to the next point to look for work. These operations can be done by pulling from the current control point's partition of the global list.
Connection Types
A Control Point Connection has one of three possible connection types:
Control Point One-Way - This connection type means the connection is a one-way connection from one Control Point to another Control Point. In other words, when you make one of these connections from Control Point A to Control Point B, Control Point B will not have a connection back to Control Point A.
Control Point Two-Way - This connection type means the connection is a two-way connection from one Control Point to another Control Point. In other words, when you add one of these connections from Control Point A to Control Point B, a connection from Control Point B back to Control Point A will automatically be created as well. When you add one of these connection types, you can make it so that the reverse connection (B back to A) connects back using the same connection type (the To Self option), or using a new connection type. Technically the two-way connection doesn't give you any added capability over the one-way because you can do this same functionality using one-way connections by manually adding one-way connections in both directions. However, this can save time in creating the connections if needed.
Object Two-Way - This connection type represents a two-way connection from a Control Point to a model object. When you add one of these connections, the Control Point can accesss the object through that connection, and the object can access the control point through the same connection.
Using Connections
You can use Control Point connections through various trigger actions, such as Way Point trigger actions, or by manually accessing them with the cpconnection() command.
