Pass values from parent to member directly?

[antonio6vieira]

Hello!

I have one doubt that I would like to clarify:

I have 2 entities that travel grouped (1 is the member and the other the parent). There is one point at my model on which I want to separate them and at the same time copy an array of values from the parent to the member.

At the momemt I'm doing this by using a state to hold the information from the parent when he enter the separate and when the member leaves it I copy the values from the state to the member.

Untill now everything's fine but I'm a little affraid that it can result in some conflicts when many entities pass through the Separate at the same time... So I would like to know if anybody has any suggestions of how to pass the values directly without a temporarilly state?

Just to be clear I'm trying to do something like this:

Member.ArrayOfValues[index]=Parent.ArrayOfValues[index]

which obviously doesn't work since this process is being executed by a token of the Parent...

Thanks!

[dsturrock]

You can reference the member via the parent, like

ModelEntity.BatchMembers.FirstItem.ModelEntity.Priority

so you can transfer values directly.

[antonio6vieira]

Thank you.

My first try was to do something like that, but I couldn't find the

 

Parent.BatchMembers.FirstItem.Member.State

 

on the "State Variable Name" options, so I assumed it was not possible...

Not sure if it's possible to do this, but I think it would be a good idea to make this field an expression editor like the "New value" is, since it's not the first time this happens to me and I'm sure it happens to other users too.

Nevertheless, once again, thank you for your help!

[dsturrock]

I understand your request, but we keep the left hand side of the assign to listing only a couple levels to keep it simpler. When you need more depth like in this case, I recommend just using the expression editor (from the right side) to locate what you need, then copy it to the left side. That is in fact what I did here.

We will explore if there is a good way to better expose the full possible range of assignments without making it too complex.