Assign pointer label in PF Source

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Mischa Spelt asked Sep 6, '23 Jeanette F commented Sep 12, '23

Assign pointer label in PF Source

Hi,

This is not a serious bug, but something that strikes me as odd. When I try to assign a pointer label in ProcessFlow it works as expected when the target is an object, e.g.

But when the target node is not an object, just a 'regular' node, the result is NULL:

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.2.0

process flow labels model tree

assign-labels-object.png (49.5 KiB)

assign-labels-node.png (43.6 KiB)

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Sep 06, 2023 at 08:30 AM

It's looking for the value of the node when it's not an object. If you want to use a pointer (in case you rename or relocate the node) then you must use another node with pointer data that points to the target and reference that node instead.

Update - scrub that it doesn't work either. Example attached.

LabelPointToNode.fsm

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labelpointtonode.fsm (28.6 KiB)

Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Sep 12, 2023 at 05:51 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-09-07T14:49:29Z

Jordan Johnson answered Sep 7, '23

Looking briefly at the code, this seems to be by design. I'll add an issue to the dev list to investigate, but the code I was looking at is super old and gets used in lots of places. The most likely outcome is that we determine not to change anything. My guess is that this bug-like behavior here is also a feature in some other circumstance.

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