Event getting the token out of a Process Flow Loop ?

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Sebastien asked Mar 2, '19 Joerg Vogel edited Mar 4, '19

Event getting the token out of a Process Flow Loop ?

Hello everyone !

I am building a custom Source with a Process Flow.

Once the source is creating flowitems I would like to be able to get out of the creation loop of the source as soon as it is down to add a dynamic cooldown time and erase the next "Release item" as I do not want it to be released later. I've looked into sub flows but as we cannot destroy tokens without moving them to a sink, I do not know how to proceed. I cannot move the token as it is always stuck in "Release Item" activity (see image below). And apparently there is no command to destroy a token, just moving them to sink or finish activities.

Would you have any recomendation to achieve this behavior in the process flow ?

Best regards,

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FlexSim 19.0.0

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Answer 1 · 2019-03-02T19:53:31Z

Joerg Vogel answered Mar 2, '19 Joerg Vogel edited Mar 4, '19

Try preempt activity, add a decide activity in the block and what is so wrong with a sink?

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Sebastien commented · Mar 03, 2019 at 07:28 AM

Thank you it worked ! I did not know about preemption.

To me, nothing is wrong with a sink. :) It is just that once the token was stuck in an activity I could get it out. Now I am redirecting the token in a sink thanks to the preemption.

Thank you again.

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