How do we create a pointer for a staff member in Excel ?

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Céline Y2 asked Aug 16, '20 Ben Wilson edited Sep 1, '20

How do we create a pointer for a staff member in Excel ?

Hi!

I am working on a healthcare structure simulation. I want to point a staff member in Excel who will be associated to a patient. For example, the surgeon1 will operate the first patient. How can I do that in Excel ?

Thanks for you help !

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.1.2

excel import pointer label

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Aug 27, 2020 at 03:18 PM

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Answer 1 · 2020-08-21T20:17:57Z

Jordan Johnson answered Aug 21, '20 Ben Wilson edited Sep 1, '20

An Excel Spreadsheet cell can only contain a number or text. However, you can put the name of a FlexSim operator in the excel spreadsheet. Then, you can import the table. Once the table is in FlexSim, you can write code that converts the text of the name to a pointer. Here is an example of code that could do that:

Table table = Table("TableWithNameColumn"); for (int i = 1; i <= table.numRows; i++) { table[i]["ColWithName"] = Model.find(table[i]["ColWithName"]; }

Note that this won't work if you import the excel data into a bundle table.

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