Property Tables columns "Groups" vs "AllGroups"?

[mike_mayer]

[ FlexSim 21.1.4 ]

What's the difference between the "Groups" and "AllGroups" columns in Property Tables? The online documentation in "PROPERTY TABLES" explains AllGroups, but I could not find anything describing the Groups column.

They seem the same, but I thought I saw/heard somewhere that they are different. For what I need, AllGroups seems to work fine for filtering, sorting, and so on.

Thanks

[Matthew_Gillespie · Accepted solution]

You'll only really see the difference if you have nested groups. Groups will only list the groups the object is a direct member of. AllGroups will list all groups including the groups it is indirectly a member of. Here's an example, Group1 contains Group2 and Group2 contains Group3. Putting Processor2 in Group3 gives you just Group3 for Groups, but lists all three groups in AllGroups:

[mike_mayer]

AH yes, I see now. Thank you!

I do remember seeing that somewhere in the doc (or maybe it was a video). So you could say, that "AllGroups" will give you the group lineage (or, provenance) of a particular item if it has at least 1 parent group.