topic How to feed token generation in terms of percentage? in FlexSim Forum

How to feed token generation in terms of percentage?

rajankur6494 — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 12:26:49 GMT

[ FlexSim 21.0.10 ]

Hi Team,

I am having patient arrival varying based on hour and weekday. Also, weekly demand is varying in terms of statistical distribution.

What is the best way to feed this data in simulation?

Thank you!

Re: How to feed token generation in terms of percentage?

kavika_faleumu — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 15:55:39 GMT

Hey @Ankur A3, with that table you've provided, I think it'd be best to copy and paste that into a Global Table and read values from there into the model.

Re: How to feed token generation in terms of percentage?

rajankur6494 — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 16:27:23 GMT

Hi @Kavika F,

This table shows the % fixed arrival in respective time interval on weekday. Also, I have to multiply this % to total volume which is having variable value over the week.

The problem I am facing, it is not possible to put global table cell in source activity at a time for all intervals.

Can you attach the demo model if you get the idea to do it?

Thank you!

Re: How to feed token generation in terms of percentage?

kavika_faleumu — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 16:53:44 GMT

You could add the percentages into a global table as decimal values then look them up that way. In a Schedule Source in Process Flow you can add an arrival schedule and initialize all the values to 0. Then you can go into each cell and your weekly distribution and multiply it by the corresponding decimal value from the table.

Re: How to feed token generation in terms of percentage?

rajankur6494 — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 12:46:26 GMT

Hi @Kavika F,

Got it. Thanks for sharing this direct option. Anyhow, I was missing it.

I would like to know if there is any fast way to add data in each cell with respect to time slot since going in every cell is little time consuming way.

Thank you!

Re: How to feed token generation in terms of percentage?

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 14:14:06 GMT

You can get the reference to the table using something like this:

Object source=getactivity("ProcessFlow","Source");
Table arrivals=variables(source).subnodes["arrivals"];

Then you can populated it using scripted table methods and operators.

Re: How to feed token generation in terms of percentage?

rajankur6494 — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 14:30:58 GMT

Hi @Kavika F,

I am not able to see data in columns based on weekday. It's showing in rows.

Do I need to do some settings or is it due to version difference?

Thank you!

Re: How to feed token generation in terms of percentage?

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 14:40:20 GMT

I doesn't look like you chose the Generate Table option that Kavika shows he used. Press that button and select 'weekly' with the division length of '1 hour.'

Re: How to feed token generation in terms of percentage?

rajankur6494 — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 15:33:37 GMT

Got it! @Jason Lightfoot. Actually, I was trying in same way but by mistake changed row number so it was not working. Now, it is working fine. I think row number can't be changed with this method.

Re: How to feed token generation in terms of percentage?

Jeanette_Fullmer — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:40:39 GMT

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