Placing item in respective cell of a rack

Hi,

I am trying understand what is relationship between flowitems that are created by Onmessage by a rack and the Place in bay/level function.

I have used Onmessage to create 6 flowtems that carried a respective itemtype. I would like to place the items into the respective cell of a rack that 2 bay x 3 level. I have global table (known as "loc", col 1 is for bay and col 2 is for level) that specify the location of each item according to the itemtype.

I have used the template place in bay by

gettablenum("loc", getitemtype(item),1);

and level

gettablenum("loc", getitemtype(item),2);

However, I can't have the item goes to the respective cell.

Please advise

David,

The easiest way to get the place an item placed in the bay and rack that you want is to insure that the flowitem enters the object through a port. If you create the item with the create copy command then you will want to create it in the model and them move it into the object with the move object command. You can bypass some of the work by using the insertcopy command.

Both of these options will cause the item to fire the OnReceive event to fire and will thus place the item using the default code of the rack.

Good luck,
Brandon