Rename area without losing connections

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Matthew Gillespie asked Nov 16 2016 at 7:03 PM Matthew Gillespie commented Dec 05 2016 at 5:06 PM

Rename area without losing connections

I have an area that contains lots of locations and is connected up to lots of other areas. I would like to rename the area, but the only way I can see to do that is to change the area name on each object which will delete all the connections.

Software Version:

FlexSim HC 5.1.0

hc area rename

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Answer 1 · 2016-11-16T19:05:33Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Nov 16 2016 at 7:05 PM Matthew Gillespie commented Dec 05 2016 at 5:06 PM

Currently there isn't an easy way to do this through the interface, but here's a script you can run that will rename the area:

string oldName = "BedArea";
string newName = "MyArea";
 
for(int i = 1; i <= content(model()); i++)
{
	treenode obj = rank(model(), i);	
	if(getvarstr(obj, "AreaName") == oldName)
		setvarstr(obj, "AreaName", newName);
}
 
setname(node(oldName, AreasNode), newName);
 
treenode globalVar = node(concat("MODEL:/Tools/ModelLibraries/FlexsimHC/globalvariables/", oldName));
setname(globalVar, newName);
sets(first(globalVar), newName);
 
refreshglobalvariables();
UpdateReferences(oldName, newName);

Just replace BedArea with the name of the area you want to rename and MyArea with the new name.

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