How to get the cycletime variable

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Gabriel Morgante asked May 02 2019 at 7:52 PM Gabriel Morgante commented May 03 2019 at 6:01 PM

How to get the cycletime variable

@phil.bobo
I am creating a new post as you suggested but I think your previous answer is right on the spot

The only problem is that it's not acting as it should as you can see in the following images:

Here I'm trying to store the value in a label

It should be '4000' but instead it's recording '200'

In fact this item has no variable with a value of '200'

What am I doing wrong?

I have attached the model so you can take a look if you want...operadores.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 19.0.0

script variables

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Answer 1 · 2019-05-03T14:59:38Z

Phil BoBo answered May 03 2019 at 2:59 PM Gabriel Morgante commented May 03 2019 at 6:01 PM

You don't want to put your code in either place (OnSetupFinish or OnProcessFinish).

Move your code from OnSetupFinish into OnMessage.

In your OnSetupFinish, send a delayed message in 0 time.

OnSetupFinish fires before the Process Time field. You need a trigger right after the Process Time field. You can do that with OnMessage.

You could customize your Process Time code to store that value on a label before returning it, but again, that's still going to fire AFTER the OnSetupFinish code that would be trying to read that label. You are trying to use a value that hasn't been determined yet. You need to change it so that you are using that value after it has been calculated.

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Gabriel Morgante commented · May 03 2019 at 5:25 PM

Phil,

I'm trying to implemente what you said but when I use the code 'getitemvar(item, 2)' in the 'OnMessage' trigger it sees 'item' as a node(text in blue) and then I get an error message (attached). How should I reference the incoming Item when using the 'OnMessage' trigger?

Thanks a lot!

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Phil BoBo ♦♦ Gabriel Morgante commented · May 03 2019 at 5:46 PM

Pass the item as the "From" object. Reference it in the On Message trigger using fromObject or msgsendingobject.

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Gabriel Morgante Phil BoBo ♦♦ commented · May 03 2019 at 6:01 PM

It worked! Thanks a lot Phil!

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Answer 2 · 2019-05-02T21:39:14Z

David Seo answered May 02 2019 at 9:39 PM Phil BoBo converted comment to answer May 03 2019 at 3:06 PM

@Gabriel Morgante

You need to set the command of getitemvar(item, 2) in 'OnProcessFinish' instead of OnSetupFinish.

The cycletime (process time) is set after 'SetupFinish' trigger.

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