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How to call the user command having array as a parameter?

rajankur6494 — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:15:38 GMT

[ FlexSim 23.2.1 ]

Hi Team,

I have created a user command and passing array as a parameter. But, it is showing errors while calling the user command.

Could you help me to know where it is going wrong?

Thank you!

Re: How to call the user command having array as a parameter?

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:37:22 GMT

Here's the documentation - you should use "var seq" in your list of parameters.

Re: How to call the user command having array as a parameter?

rajankur6494 — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:51:16 GMT

@Jason Lightfoot

Thanks for providing the documentation link.

Before, I was using Array seq = param(1); while defining user command.

Now, I made the correction as below:

var seq = param(1);

Even I am getting the same errors while calling the user command as

int Min_Time = Min_Changeover_Time([1,2,3]);

It is not accepting array as a parameter.

Do I need to change anything else?

Thank you!

Re: How to call the user command having array as a parameter?

962076751 — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:37:53 GMT

try here

Re: How to call the user command having array as a parameter?

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:24:07 GMT

The Array type is correct in the code but not in the parameter definition of the user command where you must use 'var' or Variant.

Example attached.

UserComand_minValInArray.fsm

Re: How to call the user command having array as a parameter?

rajankur6494 — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:01:17 GMT

@Jason Lightfoot

I can't open it as it is in 2024 version.

Could you share it 2023 version?

Thank you!

Re: How to call the user command having array as a parameter?

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:18:14 GMT

The code is this:

Array theArray=param(1);
double minval=GLOBAL_UNREACHABLE;
for (int n=theArray.length;n>0;n--)
    minval=Math.min(minval,theArray);
return minval;

The command is setup like this:

I called it using this line in a script console:

minValInArray([5,8,33])

Re: How to call the user command having array as a parameter?

rajankur6494 — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:49:19 GMT

@Jason Lightfoot

Thank you so much! It is working now.

Re: How to call the user command having array as a parameter?

rajankur6494 — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 07:55:26 GMT

@Jason Lightfoot

I have one more question to ask for better clarity if I can.

For return type, we have used num as the return value is an integer.

But instead of 1, I would like to add 2 return values as an output. For example:-

Final Sequence Array along with Min Changeover Time

After defining the user command, that's how I was calling it:

Here is the output:

It is not working correctly for min_Time value as it should be 224. I feel it is just taking the first element of array as output for min_Time.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Re: How to call the user command having array as a parameter?

moehlmann_fe — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 08:36:20 GMT

Code execution stops after the first "return". You have to return the values as an array.

return [bestOrder, minTime];

Use "Variant" as the return type and assign the values as follows.

Array result = Get_Min_CO_Time(...).as(Array);
Array bestsequence = result[1];
double min_Time = result[2];

Re: How to call the user command having array as a parameter?

rajankur6494 — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:04:40 GMT

Got it @Felix Möhlmann

Working as expected. Thank you so much!