In my model, all staff are to be diverted to another ongoing task (Task B) after Task A has been completed.
I am currently using people flow to run my model.
How do I enable this feature?
[people flow] How to divert staff resources to another job after an event?
FlexSim 22.0.0
Is Task B already ongoing and the staff is diverted to "help" with the task or is it a new task?
Is it a fixed task, as "if nothing else to do, do Task B"?
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What you could do is keep a list of all ongoing task. Every token pushes itself onto the list before it starts coordinating its current task. After that task is finished it pulls itself off of the list again. That way, if another token finishes a task in the mean time, it can find and pull the token from list. The finished token can then be send to help with the other task. What exactly that constitutes would depend on the task. If you have multiple different types of task, you would need to define a label on the tokens that lets others read what task it is doing, so any helping tokens can be send to corresponding parts of the process flow.
The following picture is a tough outline of how this logic could look.
The 'Push to List' activity would be set so the token is released immediately but the entry stays on the list.
The second 'Pull from List' would send the token to either connection, depending on whether another task token could be pulled or not.
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