How to use a User Event?

I want to learn how user events work. What I intend to do is to create a custom trigger that runs after every minute and I want different things in my model to do different things on that trigger. Is it possible ?

Hello,

I am not sure why you want to do this, because when you call a user event every minute, it will slow down your simulation a lot. Maybe you can explain what you want to do and there is a better solution.

But if there is not, you could create a user event that is repeated every minute and call a user event that collectes everything you need or send a message to the objects you want to do something.

Esther

I am simulating an Emergency department and I am also trying to build an agent based (adaptive model) I want to model decisions in such a way that they take the current wait time i.e. average waiting to be seen time of patients that are currently in the waiting room into account.
Since Flexsim is a DES software it moves from one trigger to next and so can only run codes at these specific points.. I wanted to put a label on each patient indicating his waiting time which continuously updates itself.. So I thought if I can a have a trigger every one minute I can run a command to update the waiting time again and again..

You can just calculate the values when the decision happens - if that event is, for example, based upon the availability of some resource. If the decision time is based on the values you're talking about then you calculate the decision time when something changes that alters that calculation. Then scheduling the decision event can be for example a delayedmessage to an object, or a similar event mechanism. You have options then to identify whether the decision has expired by sending in something to identify the event (eg. the time it was sent) and a stored value of the latest decision event that was scheduled (on a variable or label) - or you can manipulate the events on the object so that you only have one valid event scheduled.