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In process flow, how to use activity name to retrieve table value?

jingyong_p — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 18:20:34 GMT

[ FlexSim 21.0.2 ]

Imaging I have many operation steps (delay function in process flow), Each operation will be named as A1, A2, .A3......

How can I use the process name to do global table search?

It is easy if just only few steps in the process. but not very efficient if I have many steps.

Will be the same if I use Performance measure table?

Thank you

example.fsm

Re: In process flow, how to use activity name to retrieve table value?

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 18:51:30 GMT

Just enter:

activity.name

Re: In process flow, how to use activity name to retrieve table value?

jingyong_p — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:14:02 GMT

Thank you.

Re: In process flow, how to use activity name to retrieve table value?

jpanY7K8B — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 01:27:58 GMT

How to access a "Resource" name "? I tried below, not working. Thank you

Re: In process flow, how to use activity name to retrieve table value?

moehlmann_fe — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 06:34:05 GMT

"activity" is a null value in the Count field for some reason. Use "resource.name" instead.

To check this I placed a breakpoint in the code (open code editor with scroll icon) and checked what values are assigned to the header variables (the code is executed on model reset).

Re: In process flow, how to use activity name to retrieve table value?

jpanY7K8B — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 06:53:43 GMT

@moehlmann_fe Thank you so much. "resource.name" works.

similar question: how can I use the similar code to get the container's name? apparently, "container.name" does not work.

Re: In process flow, how to use activity name to retrieve table value?

moehlmann_fe — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 07:11:45 GMT

That would be the following:

ownerobject(getvarnode(activity, "container").subnodes[1].value).name

With "getvarnode(...).subnodes[1]" we start at the activity node and get the variables node that contains the link to the container. ".value" follows the pointer to the link node in the container's attribute tree. "ownerobject()" traverse up in the hirarchy until it finds an object node. Which is the container in this case.