Can the combiner be used to pack different size boxes?

I would like to use the combiner to pack items into boxes with capacities of 20 items and 5 items. The boxes enter in port 1 and the items enter in port 2.

What I would like to do is this:
IF (Incoming item in port 1 is of type 1)
THEN pack 20 items
ELSE pack 5 items

Can someone think of a way to do this?

There is another problem as well that I haven't been able to solve yet. I want the combiner to wait untilll a box arrives, before it can collect the items.

Now it already collects the required items and when a box arrives, the items are packed. Is there a way to change this?

-edit: I posted this second question too quickly, it is already solved

Hello Timo,

Start with the picklist option "update combiner component list". Because you change only the packing amount of only one port, you do not need the for loop. but the variable index has to be still 1. You change the first row in the component table. You will find two command lines with each containing a gettablenum function. These functions return the value which the combiner should update to. Here you put an own variable which you change in your if-condition to the value you want. If you want, you can change the inc line similar to the setnodenum line.

The following code contains the changes.

if(port == 1)
{  //The trigger on entry code fires each time a flow item enters the combiner.
   //For this reason we check to make sure that the port entered is equal to 1
   //because only the container will enter through port 1.
  //The component list in a combiner is set up as a table.  This allows us to use the cell commands to obtain the node that contains
  //the number of items to retrieve from each port.  Once you know what node contains the information you can use the setnodenum
  //command to set the component list number based on the global table.
  treenode thelist = getvarnode(current,"componentlist");
  treenode thesum = getvarnode(current,"targetcomponentsum");
  setnodenum(thesum,0);
  int packquantity;
  if (getitemtype(item)!=1) packquantity = 5;
  else packquantity=20;
    setnodenum(cellrowcolumn(thelist,1,1),packquantity);
    setnodenum(thesum,packquantity);
}

Jörg

Thanks Jörg! This is exactly wat I was looking for. It is working now!