Pulling Content Value From a Specific Zone Partition Caclulation

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Noah Z asked Sep 11, '19 Joerg Vogel commented Sep 17, '19

Pulling Content Value From a Specific Zone Partition Caclulation

I have a zone with partitions based on a string label on entering tokens. Further, there is a partition calculation based on a different numerical label on the entering token as well.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to pull the current value of the partition calculation for a specific partition. Is there a command that will allow me to do this? Ultimately I'm trying to check on the value of that specific partition calculation every so often from within a User Event.

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FlexSim 19.2.0

zone partition partition calculations

Answer 1 · 2019-09-11T18:32:02Z

Sam Stubbs answered Sep 11, '19 Karan commented Aug 30, '22

The command you need to use to get Partition stats is getstat, and the parameters are as follows:

getstat(getactivity("ProcessFlow", "Zone"), "PartitionCalculationTotal", STAT_CURRENT,0,partition,"Partition Total Value")

The first parameter is the Zone, the second is the stat you want (in this case "PartitionCalculationTotal.) The third parameter is the value you want (STAT_CURRENT, STAT_AVERAGE,etc). The Fourth parameter is the instance the processflow is in (0 if it is a general flow, or the object the instance is attached to if it's instanced. Then fifth parameter is the partition value. (In your case the string name of the partition you'd like to look at.) And finally the last parameter is is the name of the Partition Calculation you defined.

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Noah Z commented · Sep 11, 2019 at 07:45 PM

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Thanks @Sam Stubbs! That code worked perfectly.

I did stumble upon another question (I can make this it's own separate topic if you want?).

Basically, I sum up the numerical label to write to partition calculation. However, if while a token is within the zone that token label changes values it looks like the zone partition calculation is not updated. I've attached an example model to showcase this behavior. Is there a way to essentially force the zone to re-assess the sum of all the tokens that are within it via code?
The example model includes the situation where we start out a token with a 500 parts in a label and then halfway through it's process flow it loses 10% of the Parts (the label is updated). The current zone partition calculation, however, remains at 500 and doesn't change.

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Noah Z Noah Z commented · Sep 16, 2019 at 06:30 PM

@Sam Stubbs

Any thoughts?

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Joerg Vogel Noah Z commented · Sep 17, 2019 at 04:23 AM

@Noah Zenker, please ask a new question. Then the question won’t be easily lost on weekly review, because the question hasn’t got an answer. A question after an answer looks already answered.

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