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How to run an experiment with a code?

I would like to use the process flow to trigger the experimenter to run, is there a code that would trigger the "Run Experiment" button?

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Khalid

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Hi Khalid Kayal,

Here is a related link.

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Arun KR

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Thanks Arun

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You cannot run an experiment from within Process Flow. Process Flow events happen as part of the model run. When you run an experiment, FlexSim launches many (usually one per core) additional FlexSim instances to run the model with different settings. If running the model includes starting an experiment, then each of the launched instances will launch more instances. It would create an infinite loop of experiments, and your computer would crash.

It sounds like you are trying to automate the use of the experimenter. If so, could you describe how you want that automation to work? There may be totally different approaches to consider.

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Thanks for your reply Jordan.

I am running process flow then capturing some results in a table.

After the run is done, I am feeding the data to the experimenter scenarios, then reset the model and run the experimenter. The code above should work because I dont mind resetting the model after feeding the results.

The whole idea is that I am manually writing optimizing algorithms in process flow and I wanna leave my computer to run for x amount of hours and then reset it self and run the experimenter with the top 100 results without me interacting.

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