Calculated Tables questions

[marco_baccalaro]

[ FlexSim 17.2.1 ]

A few questions on Calculated Tables.

I’m using a Calculated Table updated “Always”. I’d like to enable it just when needed so that I can choose

• if to have the simulation running fast but without updated Dashboard Graphs
• or if to slow down the run speed but to show a lot of real time statistics.

I’m noticing that Enabling or Disabling this Calculated Table doesn’t change anything: the values are updated anyway. Is it a bug?

And is there a way to do the query also on tables stored somewhere else than as Global Tables?

[JordanLJohnson · Accepted solution]

The "Always" mode only re-runs the query when the values are needed. When you run the model fast, there is more model run per paint, so the update is called far less often. If the dashboard is closed, the update may not happen at all, unless some other mechanism (like querying or using the Table() constructor) causes an update. To run fast, you probably just need to close the dashboard, and any open table. In 18.0, there are additional optimization to reduce the total number of queries in the Always mode.

Thanks for reporting the enable/disable bug. We'll get that fixed.

Currently, you can only query global tables/lists/stats collectors/calculated tables.

[patrick_zweekhorst]

Hi @jordan.johnson,

Do you know that the enable check box still does not do anything in 18.2.2? It would be nice if you could fix that for the 19.0 release.

[JordanLJohnson]

The fix should be available in 18.0.9, 18.2.3, and in the 19.0 beta

[patrick_zweekhorst]

Thanks, looking forward to the 19.0 beta