Waiting Line Dimension

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mm_y_2406 asked Jul 12 2023 at 2:17 PM Natalie White commented Jul 20 2023 at 4:14 PM

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?

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FlexSim 23.1.3

waiting line

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mm_y_2406 commented · Jul 14 2023 at 9:57 AM

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 mm_y_2406 commented · Jul 14 2023 at 1:42 PM

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 ♦♦ mm_y_2406 commented · Jul 14 2023 at 3:26 PM

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 Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Jul 17 2023 at 10:49 AM

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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Natalie White commented · Jul 20 2023 at 4:14 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-07-12T15:30:11Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Jul 12 2023 at 3:30 PM

Yes, just add more points to the Waiting Line.

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Answer 2 · 2023-07-12T14:43:58Z

Carter Walch answered Jul 12 2023 at 2:43 PM

Hi @mm_y_2406 ,

waitinglinedemo.fsm

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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