send MD to nearest location (via travel path) in 19.2.0

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Tee Hiett asked Sep 4, '19 Tee Hiett commented Sep 11, '19

send MD to nearest location (via travel path) in 19.2.0

dev-model-09-04-2019-1.fsm

In the NP Evaluation section of the track, I would like to have the MD and the NP acquire the first available ConferenceSpot with the shortest travel distance. The ConferenceSpots are small Floor Spots underneath the WOWs. I plan to add a couple more of the Floor Spots/WOW combinations to the model.

Is this possible version 19.2.0?

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FlexSim 19.1.2

first available location travel to a location nearest available location

dev-model-09-04-2019-1.fsm (701.3 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2019-09-04T22:41:27Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Sep 4, '19 Tee Hiett commented Sep 11, '19

It's not the easiest thing to do right now (we're hoping to make this easier in a few months), but right now you have to write a query in the Location field. When you ask for something from the ConferenceSpots group a query is automatically generated for you that looks like this:

WHERE [ConferenceSpots] AND (Priority = 0 OR (Priority < 100 AND Preemptable > 0)) ORDER BY Priority, [ConferenceSpots]

Now we just need to copy this query, add travelDistance to the list of things to order by and then paste this new query in the Location field. The new query looks like this:

WHERE [ConferenceSpots] AND (Priority = 0 OR (Priority < 100 AND Preemptable > 0)) ORDER BY Priority, travelDistance, [ConferenceSpots]

I've added this to your model in the attached file. closestconf.fsm

closestconf.fsm (705.2 KiB)

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Tee Hiett commented · Sep 11, 2019 at 09:23 PM

Matthew,
Thanks for sharing this information. I look forward to working with this feature and the Priority in the near future.

Right now, I'm changing the approach to assign one or more exam tables to a specific WOW or more precisely the object underneath the WOW. I'm having trouble with this approach and I will post that problem under a separate topic. I would provide a link to that topic but I don't know how to include the linkage.

Tee

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