How to know the type of operator allocated to Control Area/point

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Ankith T asked Mar 2, '23 Joerg Vogel edited Mar 9, '23

How to know the type of operator allocated to Control Area/point

I have a model where people and Task executers share a common travel area. To avoid collision between people and Task Executers i am using a control area. i would like to know the type of operator allocated the control area so that if a person allocated the "Max allocations" of the control area can be more than 1 eg., 5 or 6, but if a task executer allocated the control area the max allocations is 1.

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FlexSim 21.0.10

taskexecutor control area operater allocation operator type

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Joerg Vogel commented · Mar 03, 2023 at 06:20 AM

People objects are a flow item class objects. Operators are inherited from taskexecuter class.

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Ankith T Joerg Vogel commented · Mar 03, 2023 at 02:56 PM

but i would like to know in the process flow using custom code, which operator allocated the control area, how can i recognize that.

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Mar 08, 2023 at 04:15 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-03-03T23:35:45Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Mar 3, '23 Jason Lightfoot edited Mar 8, '23

In the current version you may be able to use routing constraints to block the allocation of the control area, but in your version you'll need to manage the stop/start of task executers (both types) based on the state of the control area allocation which you can detect and maintain using a process flow.

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Mar 08, 2023 at 06:50 PM

Once you have a pointer to the allocated TE you can test for it being an instance of the Operator class using:

classobject(allocTE)==library().find("?Operator")

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Answer 2 · 2023-03-08T18:29:16Z

Joerg Vogel answered Mar 8, '23 Joerg Vogel edited Mar 9, '23

I tested all Operator types: People, flow item and operator. They are all the same. taskexecuters/Operator. Then you can not distinguish from their attributes how they got into a model. class_taskexecuter_from_peoples_operator_flowitem.fsm

Edit: Knowing this, all you can do is to mark each operator on creation or after dragging them into a model by label. This label can you use to distinguish a type.

class-taskexecuter-from-peoples-operator-flowitem.fsm (49.3 KiB)

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