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You seem to have compounded the original question of how to move multiple items using a Move Object activity with another question of when to do it - ie. at what event. We can change your model so that it only tries to do it when you have say 10 items to pull (as an Array).

Next you've interpreted the notion of "move quantity" as some sort of array. It's a scalar - just a number telling you the number to move.

The next point is that you have set the required number to be 1 - so for every arrival you are creating a token which will pull the triggering item of the list an move it. This doesn't exhibit any interesting behavior you might want to model with lists and arrays of items to move.

Another point is that your Move Object reference is just to token.Item - again just the triggering item so will just move one object.

To exhibit the behavior I was describing :

• 1. change the required number to "requestNum" - which means the same as the value you entered in the field above.
• 2. Change the Move_Qty to be a scalar integer - eg. 10.
• 3. Put a timeout on the pull and have the timed-out token go to a sink on output 2 of the activity.
• 4. Assign the pulled values to token.itemsToMove
• 5. Use the itemsToMove array in the "Move Object" activity.
• 6. Revisit and work through all the tutorials as I feel these topics are covered therein.

UPDATE:

I've discovered some more things:

1) You don't need to assign the name and MoveQty to items created in the source as the source creates those.

2) You have a global table defining the move qty so can use that instead of putting it on the source and having it defined it two places.

3) It's better to create a token for each item name based on the MoveQty table and have each wait for the correct amount .

4) The column Move_qty in your global table should be numeric - not a string.

What you're trying to do can then be done with 3 activities and the list:

Source:

Pull from list:

Move Object(s)

Have an expression for Type in the list that just reads the name of the item