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Set Flow Item color by label

eric_r6 — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:29:07 GMT

[ FlexSim 20.1.0 ]

I am currently evaluating the software with the Trial version and am having trouble changing the colors of the flow items based on Object's name. I am trying to set the color of my "box" flow items based on the label that was created out of Source1. I have 5 different Products that are generated out of Source1 using and arrival sequence. I tried to follow along with some tutorials and added a Trigger on source 1 to "Set Label and Color" On Exit. This is changing the name of each box however it's keeping them all the same color. Attached is the file I am working with.

Second question, how do I keep the operator from "walking" through the middle of the processors?

Thank you!

Re: Set Flow Item color by label

Jeanette_Fullmer — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 18:38:29 GMT

Hello,

With the trigger you chose it assigns a new label and sets a color. To examine a label and set a color based on that label you would want to instead choose the trigger set color by case. You can then set it up as follows.

Check out this resource for your question about your operator walking through objects.

https://docs.flexsim.com/en/20.2/Reference/Tools/AStar/

Re: Set Flow Item color by label

jacek_diakun — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 19:14:53 GMT

Hello,

Please see my solution, that works based on last digits in items names (implemented in OnExit trigger in Source Object). It assumes that first digit starts at position four and number may be greater that 9 (I changed them in Source for test purposes).

Regards,

Jack

P.S. The better solution would assume that number of characters in items' names could be of different lengths (e.g. Cab1, Product100), but I have no time to write better version now 😞

helpfile-colors_based_on_last_digits_in_item_name.fsm

Re: Set Flow Item color by label

gilbertjerald1993 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:58:09 GMT

@Eric R6 You can follow the below two answer to setting color for different item based on the item name. To avoid the operator from "walking" through the middle of the processors add the operator and processor to A Star this will restrict the operator to travel in middle of the processor.

Re: Set Flow Item color by label

eric_r6 — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 19:42:26 GMT

Thank you for the responses. I ended up using Jeanette's solution because it was simpler for me with my limited knowledge of the software.

The A* navigation worked great once I included the operators into it...

Thank you!

Re: Set Flow Item color by label

dialam02 — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:15:27 GMT

thank you, it's helpful and easy to set