String as label of a flowitem

Hello,

I import data from an excel file to fill the schedule table in a source with the labels for the flowitems. Some of the data are stored as text in the excel file. I want to have them as text in the label of the flowitems too.

I import these numbers as text and also the label of the flowitem is definded as text. The schedule of the source shows me the text correct. But after generating the flowitems the labels of the flowitems are changed to number cells and the value is 0.00 and no text values are stored as label. Why does this happen?

Matthias,

please post your model or send it to me directly to solve the problem.

THX

Ralf aka ralle

Hi Matthias,

This does happen because it is implemented this way in the source. In a sequence and a schedule it internally adds a numeric label when a flowitem is created. However, you can overwrite this again on for instance the OnExit trigger of your source. The string data is still in your source, you just have to substract is and overwrite your label. I've attached a simple model in which I've altered the OnExit of the source.

Good luck!

Martijn