Is there a way to reference a label on another token in the same process flow?

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Sahar A asked Mar 22, '18 Regan Blackett answered Mar 26, '18

Is there a way to reference a label on another token in the same process flow?

This is likely a very simple question lol

I have 1 process flow, in it I have 2 different "processes" going on, so I have 2 sources. One is triggered on entry and the other is scheduled.

I want to reference a label from one token to the other token. How can I do this? Would they have the same name- token.name? Help me understand!

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FlexSim 18.0.3

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Mar 22, 2018 at 08:41 PM

The way you usually do this is to have the two tokens know about each other somehow. Either one token has a label that points at the other token, or there's some sort of parent-child relationship between the two tokens.

It's hard to know what to recommend without more context. Can you attach a sample model that shows what you're trying to do?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-22T20:51:42Z

Regan Blackett answered Mar 22, '18

The trick here is getting the reference to the "other" token. If you have a way to do that then I would save a reference to the other token on the main token and just say:

token.otherToken.labelName

There's a few ways to go about getting that other token reference, like on the Assign Labels activity there are options for looking at tokens in a shared asset or in another activity:

You could also use a List to match up the tokens if there is some particular way that they have to "find" each other. That would let you use the "puller" or "pulled" labels to find who the other token is.

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