I have a crane that needs to load different types of parts; Stiffeners and Plates. How do I use Load by Case so that it doesn't matter whether a stiffener or a plate part comes through, it still gets loaded. The original code called for the crane to load token.Stiffener, but now I need to load small plates as well. There is no guidance that I can find anywhere on the proper syntax.
I was trying to attach a screen shot by pasting. Apparently need to use the attach button. I was able to fix the pull problem with synchronizing list. Newest issue is syntax for load by case. I cannot find any guidance on how this works. I want to load either a token.Stiffener or a token.Plate, depending on what arrives.
How do you know what arrived?
If it's just an either-or situation based off some label value then you could just use the Conditional Object option.
Here is an example where you don't have to use a string value in a case statement. The benefit here is that it would be future proof for you.
You would use a set labels activity in each flow prior to the join and set a universal label ("LoadPart" in this example) to be equal to the token.Stiffener or Token.Plate labels that you currently have in your model.
If you have your heart set on using a case statement then you need to use a number to differentiate between the part types. The reason for this is that case statements are unable to take strings, integer numbers.
I hope this helps,
Brandon
I'll give the label method a try. Already setting some additional labels to drive other logic. Thanks
It seems like the easiest thing to do, would be to set a new label on the token, like "ItemToLoad" wherever the DESC label gets set. That way your Load activity could just say token.ItemToLoad.
The By Case option is a good way of having multiple options, but it only works if the Case Function returns a number. In your case, where you're deciding based off the string value of a label you should just write a series of if statements. So click the Edit Code button next to the Item field and type in code like this:
if(token.DESC == "Stiffener") return token.Stiffener; if(token.DESC == "Plate") return token.Plate; if(token.DESC == "SomethingElse") return token.SomethingElse;
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