Calculated Tables questions

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Marco Baccalaro asked Sep 22 2017 at 7:06 AM Patrick Zweekhorst commented Nov 02 2018 at 4:12 PM

Calculated Tables questions

A few questions on Calculated Tables.

I’m using a Calculated Table updated “Always”. I’d like to enable it just when needed so that I can choose

if to have the simulation running fast but without updated Dashboard Graphs
or if to slow down the run speed but to show a lot of real time statistics.

I’m noticing that Enabling or Disabling this Calculated Table doesn’t change anything: the values are updated anyway. Is it a bug?

And is there a way to do the query also on tables stored somewhere else than as Global Tables?

Software Version:

FlexSim 17.2.1

calculated table calculatedtable

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Answer 1 · 2017-09-22T18:41:27Z

Jordan Johnson answered Sep 22 2017 at 6:41 PM Patrick Zweekhorst commented Nov 02 2018 at 4:12 PM

The "Always" mode only re-runs the query when the values are needed. When you run the model fast, there is more model run per paint, so the update is called far less often. If the dashboard is closed, the update may not happen at all, unless some other mechanism (like querying or using the Table() constructor) causes an update. To run fast, you probably just need to close the dashboard, and any open table. In 18.0, there are additional optimization to reduce the total number of queries in the Always mode.

Thanks for reporting the enable/disable bug. We'll get that fixed.

Currently, you can only query global tables/lists/stats collectors/calculated tables.

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Patrick Zweekhorst commented · Nov 02 2018 at 1:30 PM

Hi @jordan.johnson,

Do you know that the enable check box still does not do anything in 18.2.2? It would be nice if you could fix that for the 19.0 release.

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Jordan Johnson ♦♦ Patrick Zweekhorst commented · Nov 02 2018 at 3:13 PM

The fix should be available in 18.0.9, 18.2.3, and in the 19.0 beta

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Patrick Zweekhorst Jordan Johnson ♦♦ commented · Nov 02 2018 at 4:12 PM

Thanks, looking forward to the 19.0 beta

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