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Distance to travel: Task Executer to Flow Item in Rack

Hi,

My model has multiple flow items stored in a rack, I assign a "pick list" to the task executer after which the picking sequence needs to be optimized to the shortest path. I am using A star navigation and trying the "DistanceToTravel" function which works well for objects. However my flow item here is stored in a rack so the distance to travel function gives the distance from Task Executer to the node above the flow item which happens to be the Rack. Instead of having the function look at the node above, is it possible to get the distance from the task executer to the flow item?

I want to add this as an expression in a list field so I can ORDER BY ASC.

In reality I would want to optimize the overall route which means running a simple shortest path algorithm, but I don't want to go to that extent if it is not needed.

FlexSim 23.2.1
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You can sort by bay number. If you're visiting multiple racks then you may want to switch sorting ASC and DESC and they move through the store.

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