Inconsistent naming of the instances in Zone>stats/instances

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Serge A asked Feb 23, '21 Jason Lightfoot answered Feb 24, '21

Inconsistent naming of the instances in Zone>stats/instances

I noticed some strange naming of the instance references in the Zone tree structure.

How to reproduce:

FlexSim 21.0.2,
Create a BasicFR, attach it to an Object PF, with an activity EnterZone and a local Zone
Copy-paste this object
Run this model
Explore attribute tree of the Zone

What is observed:

nodes of both instances have the same name, even if they refer different objects. See the highlighted text:

This issue doesn't seem to affect how models work, but it may be a trap if someone decides that names of the subnodes of >stats/instances are meaningful.

`gettokens` command works as expected:

gettokens(Model.find("BasicFR4"), node("MODEL:/Tools/ProcessFlow/Object/Zone"))
// -> [/Tools/ProcessFlow/Object>stats/instances/BasicFR4/tokens/1]

Software Version:

FlexSim 21.0.2

bug flexsim 21.0.2 zones

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Answer 1 · 2021-02-24T15:40:29Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Feb 24, '21

I'll post to dev for review - as you say it's just a name - and probably nothing uses it since the pointer value is correct and where there's an option you should always compare pointer values.

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