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Get Variable Shared Asset Value in Code

stan_e_davis — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 14:29:22 GMT

[ FlexSim 21.1.5 ]

For a Process Flow Variable, I can get its value using getprocessflowvar(processFlow, "pfVar")

But I'm struggling with getting a Variable shared asset's current value using flexscript.

Some of what I've tried...

getvarnum(processFlow, "MyVar")

Model.find("MyVar").value

getstat(getactivity(processFlow, "MyVar"), "Content", STAT_CURRENT)

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Re: Get Variable Shared Asset Value in Code

moehlmann_fe — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 14:55:58 GMT

Variant value = processFlow.find("MyVar>variables/variableRef").evaluate();

I don't know if this is the "proper" way to access it (probably not), but it should work.

Re: Get Variable Shared Asset Value in Code

stan_e_davis — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:36:03 GMT

Unfortunately that just returns the Variable's 'initial' value as set in the 'Variable or Value' property. It does not return the Variables current value.

Re: Get Variable Shared Asset Value in Code

moehlmann_fe — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:53:09 GMT

You're right. I only tested it when the variable was set to reference an object's stats, sorry for that.

Try this instead:

Variant value = getsdtvalue(processFlow.find("MyVar>stats/instances/ProcessFlow"), "currentValue");

Variable_In_Code.fsm

Re: Get Variable Shared Asset Value in Code

stan_e_davis — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 17:24:49 GMT

I appreciate the help. However, that's still not working for me. I'm also getting errors with your attached model...

Re: Get Variable Shared Asset Value in Code

moehlmann_fe — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 17:33:06 GMT

Ok, so the "ProcessFlow" in the .find-command has to be replaced with the name of the processflow instance the variable is in. Apparently the name change only took effect when saving the model.

Variable_In_Code_2.fsm

This one should (hopefully, finally) work.

Re: Get Variable Shared Asset Value in Code

stan_e_davis — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 18:56:33 GMT

Felix, yep, that worked and understood. I appreciate the help with this. - Stan

Re: Get Variable Shared Asset Value in Code

ryan_c10 — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 19:24:12 GMT

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