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mm_y_2406 asked Natalie White commented

Waiting Line Dimension

Can the waiting line be in a L shape instead of just a straight line? The people queueing in the waiting line became longer than the line itself that it started lining up beyond the barrier line. Is there anyway to overcome this? 1689171416428.png

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mm_y_2406 avatar image mm_y_2406 commented ·

Thanks for the advice. Another query was any reason they would line up beyond the barrier as it was within the A* navigation grid so it was not supposed to line up on where the barrier was even if the line exceeds

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Julie Weller avatar image Julie Weller mm_y_2406 commented ·
Did you add the barrier to the A* system? That would be my guess why they went outside it?
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Matthew Gillespie avatar image Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ mm_y_2406 commented ·
When a person gets in line, they are moved inside the line object and no longer interact with the A* grid while they're inside the line.
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mm_y_2406 avatar image mm_y_2406 Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented ·
That explains it. Thanks! Is there any way that the patient still recognises the barrier to avoid it despite being in the line?
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Matthew Gillespie answered

Yes, just add more points to the Waiting Line.1689175803957.png1689175743640.png


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Hi @mm_y_2406 ,

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One way to work around this is to create a secondary waiting line for when the first line has too many people in it. In this model I used a Decide activity to send people to the secondary line if the subnodes.length (number of people) of the first line exceeded a certain value. Then they wait for someone to exit the first line and move up to the next line. You can specify the number of people in each line and have people line up however you like.

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