We provide you with two blocks for routing agents to different flowchart branches: SelectOutput and SelectOutput5.
- SelectOutput has two output ports and can split the agent flow to two branches.
- SelectOutput5 has five output ports and it may route agents to up to five exits.
Using SelectOutputIn and SelectOutputOut blocks, you can create a quasi-block SelectOutput with the required number of exits. You create it by adding a SelectOutputIn block and the required number of SelectOutputOut blocks. These blocks should not be connected together graphically.
To implement a custom routing to N flowchart branches
- Add a SelectOutputIn block from the Auxiliary section located at the bottom of the Process Modeling Library palette.
- Add the desired number of SelectOutputOut blocks.
- In each SelectOutputOut block, specify the name of the SelectOutputIn block that serves as the input.
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Define the routing principle. There are two options:
- In the SelectOutputIn properties, select Select output: By explicit choice and specify the expression that returns the SelectOutputOut block in the property below.
- In the SelectOutputIn properties, select Select output: With probabilities in SelectOutputOut blocks, and specify probabilities for each SelectOutputOut block.
The following simple model shows how to implement both cases.
Demo model: SelectOutputN Open the model page in AnyLogic Cloud. There you can run the model or download it (by clicking Model source files).- The type of agents exiting this block. This agent type is referred to below as T.
Default value: Agent
- SelectOutputIn block
- The block SelectOutputIn that composes a quasi multi-exit SelectOutput together with this and other SelectOutputOut blocks.
Syntax: SelectOutputIn selectOutputIn
- Applies when in the referred SelectOutputIn block Select output: With probabilities in SelectOuputOut blocks. Expression used to evaluate the probability that the current agent will exit via this SelectOutputOut block. The probability value should be in the [0..1] range.
Value type: double
Local variable: agent — the agent
- On exit (true)
- Code executed when the agent exits the block.
Local variable: agent — the agent
- out
- The output port.
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