how to toggle (on/off) 'enable' of the inter-arrival source Activity?

[support5CRPZ]

[ FlexSim 22.0.1 ]

My customer want to know how to control 'enable' of the inter-arrival source activity to On/Off.

Is there a way to control the Enable field to 'check' or 'uncheck' using custom code activity?

[moehlmann_fe · Accepted solution]

activity.as(Object).setVariable("enabled", value);
// OR
setvarnum(activity, "enabled", value);

These can set the source to be enabled (value == 1) or not (value == 0). To immediately update the icon, add

function_s(activity, "updateIcon");

The necessary code can be auto-generated by choosing a process flow source as reference for a parameter in the Parameters table.

Since you are asking about doing this is a custom code activity I presume your customer wants to switch the source on/off while the model is running? In that case a different solution would be required, since the "enabled" setting only takes effect on a reset.

A simple decide activity controlled by a global variable or process flow label that sends created tokens directly to a sink can achieve this. (You could of course also have the decide look at the "enabled" variable that is changed in the above code but that seems unnecessarily complicated).

[support5CRPZ]

My customer wants to switch the source 'Enabled' on/off while the model is running as you presume. He wants to do it dynamically using parameter or global variables .

[jason_lightfootVL7B4]

Then the condition in the decide activity would just refer to that global variable which is either 1 or 0.

[ryan_c10]

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