How to select the correct location after the waiting line

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Patrick Zweekhorst asked Apr 5, '19 Patrick Zweekhorst commented Apr 8, '19

How to select the correct location after the waiting line

Hi,

When patients arrive at the entrance of my model it is possible that both registration desks are occupied. In that case they go to one of the two waiting lines. When they are in the waiting line only one location is allowed to serve them. The waiting line corresponds to a location, such that when you choose a waiting line you also pick the location.

How can we do this in the people module?
In the acquire location we are not able to use a query to select a specific location.
What options are there to select the correct location?

It is of course possible to add a separate resource for each location, but in the actual model there are quite some locations so we don't want to do that.

This is the situation I am describing.

Thanks for your help,

Patrick

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Answer 1 · 2019-04-05T19:23:24Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Apr 5, '19 Patrick Zweekhorst commented Apr 8, '19

You can acquire a specific object by setting the query to be that object. You could do that with the Conditional Object pickoption, or in this model I set a label on the Waiting Line that points at the correct desk. Then I reference that label value as the query.

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Patrick Zweekhorst commented · Apr 08, 2019 at 11:55 AM

Hi @Matthew Gillespie,

Thanks for this solution, we did not think about using the "query" in this way.
Changing the location value of the resource indeed does what we want here.

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