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Can a separator send items to 3 different ports?

Summary:

-I'm trying to send the cylinders from separator 1 to the first conveyor.

-I'm trying to send the pallet to the Sink2.

-I'm trying to send the blue boxes to the second conveyor.

Hello, I'm having problems separating items in a separator, the problem is; Combiners include a default state, where anything coming from port 1 is the base of the packing feature, so i use a random source to fill that requisition with a pallet and then another two sources wich are my products to pack together, then they are sent to a separator for academic purposes, there is the problem, the unpack feature sends by default anything coming from port 1 as the port container, and the content goes to port 2, the thing is that i need those 2 previously packed products to get separated and sent to conveyor 1 and conveyor 2 respectively, and the pallet to go to a sink, so i need three ports, is there any solution to this?

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The easiest way to do this is to assign a Type label to the items and then send to port by type. In this model I assigned the pallets a Type label of 1, the cylinders 2, and the boxes 3. Then in the Send To Port field I just put item.Type.

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