Setting item color based on type

Hello,

I'm quite new to FlexSim and am trying to have my Source use a Global Lookup Table to determine the color based on Item Type of 1, 2 or 3. I'm using the OnCreation Trigger and "Set Itemtype and Color" from the picklist, with the Type "gettablenum("GTable", 1, 1)". The Tutorials mention a "Set Color" trigger that doesn't appear in any of the context menus in FlexSim 7, unfortunately. Anything with a Type of 1 would be Green, 2 = Red, 3 = Blue.

Getting the types down will be necessary so that I can then add to the table different arrival rates for each, as well as route the different types to different Processors. I believe this is setting the Types down, but I'm having trouble linking the colors. Could I use the Set Object Color trigger to specify the colors given a particular ItemType?

You can tell if you are setting the item type by selecting a box and it's properties will show the item type.
Unless you want very specific colours I would be tempted to use the Set Color By Case Trigger using the item type. You must have set the item type before you set the color though.

Hello Bill,

you are looking for a function you can't get from templates. You have to change a source code. Maybe you like to set the itemtype by random. That is ok. You can choose a template for this method, but then you have to write the source code on your own from the scratch. Another a approach would be the use of the template "set itemtype and color". There you insert the command gettablenum to get access to the second column of your global table to fetch the color number in dependence to your random type. You find the source code editor under the scroll icon.

Command gettablenum([name as string or rank number of table],[row as number], [column number]) returns a number value of the table cell.

Jörg