How to create pop up menus in new libraries?

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Jouky D asked Aug 22 2023 at 1:08 PM Matthew Gillespie commented Feb 24 2025 at 5:23 PM

How to create pop up menus in new libraries?

Hello everyone.

After choosing an object (as the processor) of a library, I want to show some of the subobjects inside it as the pop up in the processor case:

How can we add this to not saturate the library with lots of objects and grouping them into one object type?

Thank you!

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.1.3

library custom library processes flow items

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Aug 22 2023 at 2:53 PM

Are you making a module or a user library?

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Jouky D Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Aug 23 2023 at 7:28 AM

user library

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Aug 31 2023 at 10:34 PM

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Jouky D Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Sep 08 2023 at 7:27 AM

Sorry Jeanette, I was disconnected for 2 weeks. Thank you for accepting the answer for me!

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Answer 1 · 2023-08-28T19:58:21Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Aug 28 2023 at 7:58 PM Gui Vaccaro commented Feb 26 2025 at 3:37 PM

Here's an example where I put 4 user library objects under one entry in the library:

MyTaskExecuter.fsl

I added the 4 objects to the user library like normal. But then I created a new subnode in the object data of the user library and called it SubObjects. I then copied the 4 objects from under the user library and put them inside the SubObjects node and deleted the originals. Then I added the MyTaskExecuter object and added the subnodes you see above. The main thing is that in the configs node I made an object node for each of my 4 objects and have a droppath node that references it by path. Then I pointed the popOutChoices node of MyTaskExecuter at that configs node.

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mytaskexecuter.fsl (3.3 KiB)

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Felix Möhlmann commented · Jan 29 2025 at 8:26 AM

Hi @Matthew Gillespie,

is it possible to combine the popout choices with a dropscript, i.e. executing a different script depending on which config is dropped into the model?

If I replace the droppath node with a dropscript it doesn't get executed and it defaults to dropping the parent object.

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Gui Vaccaro Felix Möhlmann commented · Feb 24 2025 at 1:52 PM

Hello, @Matthew Gillespie ,

is there a way to combine popoutChoices with dropscript (please see the question from @Felix Möhlmann above).

Thank you.

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ Felix Möhlmann commented · Feb 24 2025 at 5:23 PM

@Felix Möhlmann @Gui Vaccaro

Instead of having library objects under the SubObjects node you can put objects with dropscripts:

dropscriptlibrary.fsl

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Jouky D commented · Sep 08 2023 at 7:26 AM

Thank you Matthew! (sorry for not accepting the answer I was out during two weeks).

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