How to Export Dashboard tables every 2.3 (for example) units of simulation time?

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Jouky D asked Apr 14 2020 at 11:54 AM Benjamin W2 commented May 26 2020 at 10:02 PM

How to Export Dashboard tables every 2.3 (for example) units of simulation time?

Hello,

Can I export a data table automatically every 2 days of the simulation (for example) to obtain an Excel file (or CSV) for each exportation during 10 days, i.e. 5 Excels files o 5 sheets in an excel file?

Thank you

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.0.2

time excel export flexsim 20.0.2 automatic

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Answer 1 · 2020-05-22T18:48:29Z

tannerp answered May 22 2020 at 6:48 PM Benjamin W2 commented May 26 2020 at 10:02 PM

This is a little unorthodox, but I think it's still possible. I used Process Flow to create a token every 1 second. The token is assigned a "ModelTime" label, which is just the time in the model (used later to name exported CSV files). The Custom Code activity in the Process Flow takes the data from the WIP By Type table and clones it to GlobalTable1 (you could do any chart type as long as you have a Stats Collector/Calculated Table for it).

The exported files are saved with labels that are created by concatenation so that you can figure out which CSV file is associated with each second in the model.

Hopefully this helps. You can always modify it to meet your needs.

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Answer 2 · 2020-04-16T16:17:05Z

Benjamin W2 answered Apr 16 2020 at 4:17 PM Jouky D commented May 22 2020 at 2:04 PM

Hi @Jouky D,

You might try something like this:

Create a user event. Go to tools, click the green plus, enter the time of the event in "First Event Time" field. Check "Repeat event."
In your "Event Code", add the following custom code:

excelcreateworkbook();
excelsetsheet("Sheet1");
excelexporttable("Table1",1,1,5,3);
excelsave("NewWorkBook.xlsx");
excelclose(0);

Here is some documentation on these commands:

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Jouky D commented · Apr 27 2020 at 8:19 AM

Hello, thank you for this information. But how do I call in this Code a Dashboard table for each sheet (i.e: the first unit of time is the first sheet, second unit of time the second sheet, etc.)? And a new excel document for another dashboard? Can we do a loop to obtain a sheet for each unit of time executed and to obtain an excel workbook for each Dashboard table? And the most important question: how do I call a Dashboard table when the length of this could change, so in excelexporttable I cannot put a numrows?

Thank you for your time.

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Braydn T Jouky D commented · May 01 2020 at 1:06 PM

@Jouky D

You can put this code in a user Event like ben mentioned, or you could create a inter arrival source in process flow, and add a code block. If you do either of those things, you will not need a loop.

You will have to programatically determine the number that you are looking for. Our documentation has ways of determining the number of rows and columns in a table. https://docs.flexsim.com/en/20.1/Reference/CodingInFlexSim/FlexScriptAPIReference/Data/Table.html

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Jouky D Braydn T commented · May 04 2020 at 10:54 AM

Thanks for that! But how can I call a dashboard WIP table in the Code? Is not the same as calling a Global Table.

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