Which comand returns the content of a rack?

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Vanessa Buen Abad asked Nov 30, '16 Sam Stubbs commented Dec 2, '16

Which comand returns the content of a rack?

Hello

I would like to write a condition in which if the rack has at least one box, do some instructions but I don't know if "content(Rack1)" is the correct comand because the comand content returns the number of child nodes in a parent node.

I want to write this condition:

If(content(Rack1)<0){

Do something}

I will appreciate your help. Thank you so much

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Phil BoBo ♦♦ commented · Nov 30, 2016 at 06:02 PM

The content of a rack is never going to be less than 0.

You might want to check to see if the content is greater than 0:

if (content(Rack1) > 0) {
    // do something
}

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Joerg Vogel commented · Nov 30, 2016 at 05:46 AM

If you look into the manual inside the commands section you will get the command structure. The first parameter of the content command is an object. That means you have to pass a pointer into this parameter. In the source code editor you often find the predefined pointers item or current. You can look into the manual how the logic works or you use the sampler tool to get such pointer. In relative description you find command words like centerobject, inobject or outobject. A direct pointer reference function name is node. You find those commands described in the manual, too.

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Answer 1 · 2016-11-30T17:11:48Z

Sam Stubbs answered Nov 30, '16 Sam Stubbs commented Dec 2, '16

"content(Rack1)" will work. It returns the number of items in the rack in all bays and levels. If you want to look for something more specific to racks (such as rackgetbaycontent() ) then as Jorg said, you can look in the Commands documentation. (Go to Help > Commands. Or you can go to Help > Command Helper to look up specific commands.)

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Vanessa Buen Abad commented · Dec 01, 2016 at 05:27 PM

I got it, thank you so much for your help!

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