Are cranes aware of the objects?

Hi everybody,
A Crane is unloading and uploading containers, but it seems to me non-trivial how to inform the rest of my environment that what kind of container the crane is planning to discharge or upload and asking the crane to wait until certain circumstances are fulfilled.
Is there any trigger associated to the cranes such that we can set a global variable about the next job (currently) especially for those which is going to discharge.

any comment is appreciated.

Hello Shahin,

a crane is a taskexecuter. As long as the taskexecuter execute a tasksequence the next tasksequence isn't choosen and you don't know nothing about the next item to load. There is a possibility, that the next tasksequence will be the first in the tasksequencequeue or the one with the highest priority. But until flexsim choose the tasksequence you can't be absolute sure what is going to happen. There maybe a new taskesequence with a higher priority in the meantime or you change the priorities of the tasksequences in the queue.
If you think that all doesn't matter to you. You can querry the tasksequences in the tasksequencesqueue in your taskexecuter or in the dispatcher if you use one. Have a look in the help users manual > Task Sequences > Querying Information on Task Sequences. If you haven't changed the standard tasksequence or have built your own, then is the reference to the item to load in the second task in the first involved number or:

treenode nextTS = gettasksequence(current,1);// assuming you querry in the taskexecuter and you haven't any dispatcher
treenode itemToLoad = gettaskinvolved(nextTS, 2, 1);

Jörg

Thanks for the comment.
seems to be quite challenging.