topic Re: 35 character limit on bundle string length? in FlexSim Forum

35 character limit on bundle string length?

axel_kohonen — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:25:39 GMT

[ FlexSim 17.2.5 ]

Hi,

It seems that there is a limit of 35 characters on the string length in a bundle table. If I have the table in non-bundle mode then the string can be longer, but if I change it to bundle the string is abbreviated without notice except the normal bundle notice that data types must be the same in the columns, etc.

Earlier I found that there is a 35 character limit also for activity names in the token trace profiles as outlined here.

Is this limit still by design? And any plans on when the limit will be set to a higher value?

Same issue in FlexSim versions 17.2.5 and 18.0.3.

Kind regards,

Axel

Re: 35 character limit on bundle string length?

Matthew_Gillespie — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:55:00 GMT

This is from the documentation for the addbundlefield command:

Parameters
(node datanode, str fieldname, num type[, num maxstrsize])
Description
Adds a field to the bundle with the given field name. The type is a bitwise flag that must be one of the following values:

BUNDLE_FIELD_TYPE_DOUBLE : stores a 64-bit double
BUNDLE_FIELD_TYPE_FLOAT : stores a 32-bit float
BUNDLE_FIELD_TYPE_INT : stores a 32-bit integer
BUNDLE_FIELD_TYPE_STR : stores a string. If used, you should also define the maximum string size, which will be the space allocated for each string entry. If maxstrsize is unspecified, the default will be 32 bytes. The field will be able to store strings at least as long as the specified length, and any longer strings will be truncated.

Notice the explanation about maxstrsize. String bundle fields default to 32 bytes. Although, you can use this addbundlefield command to set up the fields yourself and specify whatever string length you want.

As far as I know, there are no plans to raise this default amount. If you feel we should, feel free to email dev or create an idea here.

Also, Jordan recommends using a stats collector to make an Item Trace chart which will handle long activity names better.

Re: 35 character limit on bundle string length?

axel_kohonen — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 04:06:43 GMT

Hi @Matthew Gillespie

Thank you! I had not realized that the information would be available in the documentation. Great, then I can create the fields myself if necessary. Might stick with the default for now though as it is easier to just define the whole table at once.

Axel