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Labels of flowitems appear while running

haneen_a — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 14:27:07 GMT

[ FlexSim 20.2.0 ]

Hello,

I am working on a baggage handling system, The passengers are Flowitems that work as a task executer, the bags are linked to the passengers by the label "Person" that is attached to each bag.

While the model is running, I want each bag to show the label "Person" that has the name of the passenger "PassengerTrack_1".

for example:

the bag that is linked to passenger "PassengerTrack_1" will appear visually while running a bag with the label "PassengerTrack_1" under it.

Thank you,

Re: Labels of flowitems appear while running

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 17:18:14 GMT

I added draw code to the bag to create a line from the bag to the passenger which is I think more useful.

traditional_jl.fsm

Re: Labels of flowitems appear while running

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 17:21:40 GMT

You can toggle them on/off by running this line in a script window.

drawPassengerBagConnections=!drawPassengerBagConnections;

Re: Labels of flowitems appear while running

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 05:00:55 GMT

@Haneen A You can make the name of the item appear by using the switch_hidelabel() function on the bag So you rename the bag "Passenger1" and that will appear under the bag.

switch_hidelabel(bag,0);

In the updated model attached I added the custom code activity "Label bag" as shown here:

To give this effect:

traditional_jl2.fsm

Re: Labels of flowitems appear while running

haneen_a — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:01:14 GMT

This code is exactly what I was looking for, your help is really appreciated!.

thank you Mr.Jason.

Re: Labels of flowitems appear while running

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 23:32:57 GMT

You're welcome - there is now a fully working version with corrected photo-eye positioning in this post.

Re: Labels of flowitems appear while running

haneen_a — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 21:50:09 GMT

Mr.Jason, may I ask where to find the code for the connection you provided?

I would like to remove it from my model but I couldn't find it anywhere, I did a script window to remove it in each run, yet it is annoying to use the script in each run.

Thank you.

Re: Labels of flowitems appear while running

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 22:05:36 GMT

You can remove it from the bag object tree under behaviour node or set the global variable to zero or toggle it in a script like this

drawPassengerBagConnections=!drawPassengerBagConnections