Is it possible to add more than one label with triggers to the same item?

[Patrick13]

[ FlexSim 23.1.4 ]

I would like to assign several labels (e.g. name, process time 1, process time 2, ...) to the same flowitem when creating a flowitem. So far I have only found the option to add more labels via another trigger, but these labels are then assigned independently of the labels assigned in the first trigger. It is important that I can assign a certain combination of labels to the individual flowitems.

Thanks in advance for the help 🙂

[support5CRPZ]

@Patrick

You can assign many labels to the same item in one trigger.

example name, ct1, ct2,...

What's the meaning of combination of labels?

[moehlmann_fe · Accepted solution]

The number of options you can add to a trigger is not limited. You should be able to add multiple labels to an item within a single trigger.

If only certain combinations of labels are valid, you can either write those into a table, determine the row from which to read the values and then assign those to the item. Or you use a code snippet with if-conditions or a switch-statement to select the fitting values based on the randomly generated first label value.

[Patrick13]

Thanks for the feedback.

Yes I know that, however I would like to generate a lot of different products. Each product should be identifiable by a label "product". E.g. product A, product B, .... To each product I want to give specific information e.g. process time 1, process time 2, ..... The process time differs from product to product. How do I get a suitable assignment of the process times (as label) to the corresponding products?

[Patrick13]

Thanks for the answer. 🙂

Exactly, only certain combination of values are valid. Is there no way to map this using a combination of triggers? Does this always have to be done via a table or code snippet?
Thanks in advance.

[moehlmann_fe]

Those combinations have to be defined somewhere. There are other ways to store this information than a table, but the table is likely the most convenient.

The code to assign them from a table would look something like this:

Table labelCombos = Table("LabelCombinations");
int row = duniform(1, labelCombos.numRows, getstream(current));
item.label1 = labelCombos[row][1];
item.label2 = labelCombos[row][2];
...

The other method of assigning them one by one (first label is random, possible values for next labels always depend on combination up to that point) would require more code (probably switch-statements as mentioned earlier).

Which option is better/easier/faster will depend on the nature of the label combinations. If they follow straightforward rules, then a coding approach will be a good option. If they are more "arbitrary" the table will be faster than writing tons of rules in code.

[Patrick13]

Ok thank you very much for your explanations.
I think I will try to implement it with a table.

Thanks for the support 🙂

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