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posted 8 months ago

Forum: Support – Topic: Not allow scaling

Hi Muyuan,

Sorry for being unclear -- I am referring to the horizontal scroll bar issue.

As for the issues relating to the loss of internet it may be possible that this action was performed twice because during a period of disconnectivity the sim will try 3 times to contact the server and perform the action before it fails and tells you that it cannot connect. Therefore there is a chance that with spotty internet which is switching on and off that an action would be performed twice. If you see this issue repeatedly we can do a more indepth analysis of the problem, but at this point I would blame the problem on the internet connectivity issue.

Billy

posted 8 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Not allow scaling

Hi Muyuan,

We have found the source of the bug and have fixed it. This fix will go out with our next release on Friday 9/28

Thanks for your help in finding this!

Billy

posted 8 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Not allow scaling

Hi Muyuan,

Can you send me a link to the sim for which you are experiencing the problem

Thanks

Billy

posted 8 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Price War Simulation

Hi Felix,

I have copied a version of Price war into your account. It will expire in 1 week.

Best,

Billy

posted 8 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Price War Simulation

Hi Peter,

Sure I can give you a copy of that. Please send me a link to a sim of yours and I will place it into your account for 1 week.

Also you are going to want to watch this video: http://forio.com/simulate/docs/index.php/page/384

Billy

posted 9 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Re-opening current UI page

Hi Shayne,

No, I am sorry, when users login they will be brought to the page specified in the settings for the Login Components.

Billy

posted 9 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Displaying all users' results in Run table

Hi Shayne,

As a facilitator you should be able to see all saved runs belonging to any users in your group. Here is a good checklist of things to look for:

#1: Do you show up anywhere in the user access pages? If yes you need to show up as a facilitator. If no then you are by default a facilitator in the 'default' group and will only have access to those users runs.

#2: Do the users for which you want to see results for in a separate group? If yes, add yourself to that group and mark yourself as a facilitator. If no they are in the default group and there is something else going on here.

Let me know if this helps, if not please link me to your simulation and I can look more indepth.

Billy

posted 10 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: upload data didn't work

Hi Muyuan,

I think you mis-understood me.

I meant to say that you want to have embed fonts selected.

Billy

posted 10 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: upload data didn't work

Hi Muyuan,

If you are seeing "..." in the UI designer that is okay, it will happen sometimes. In order to make sure that you do not see ... in the published version of the interface please go to the Document Settings Panel and check off the box labeled "Embed Fonts" and re-publish your simulation.

As for your other questions I will let Will handle them

Billy

posted 11 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: variable format for drawable line chart

Hi Muyuan -

Vensim does not allow us to set the lookup table in variables which are auxiliary with lookup - in order to have control over the lookup you will have to break that table out into a separate variable with type lookup and change the type of the original variable back to plain old auxiliary. For the moment let us call this new variable Sample Table, and the original variable Sample Variable. What you can do is draw an arrow from Sample Table to Sample Variable. In the equation for Sample Variable you can write Sample Table(TIME) and Vensim will draw in shadow variable for time. This will do the exact same thing as auxiliary with lookup but will allow you to change the lookup in Forio Simulate.

Please let me know if you have any more questions,

Billy

posted 11 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: How to change graphical input

Hi,

The tool that you are looking for is called the Drawable Line Graph. It is used to set lookup tables by drawing behavior onto the graph.

I imagine this question is in response to your TelService model which was converted from iThink.

During that conversion process your lookups in iThink were converted to a format which is inaccessible to the Drawable Line Graph - to convert them into an accessible form look for something like the following

V output = ARRAYGRAPHXY(input, { {0,0.1}, {0.5,0.5}, {1,0.9} })

and convert it into the following format

D sample_table[1..3,1..2] = { {0,0.1}, {0.5,0.5}, {1,0.9} }
V output = ARRAYGRAPHXY(input, sample_table)

Then you will have access to the variable called sample_table in the UI designer for use in the drawable line graph.

Remember though that everytime you re-import your iThink model you will have to re-convert your lookups.

Billy

posted 11 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: upload data didn't work

Hi Muyuan,

I have fixed the errors that Will is referring to and I have placed a copy of a sim which uses all forms of data uploading into your account.

When you use a sim with data upload there are 2 key things you need to do

#1 - You need to make sure that everyone who uses the feature is logged in. In the sample sim I have placed into your account I have done that using the Login Components on the Login Page. Your other option would be to use the Authenticate User action before the Upload Data action

#2 - You need to place a button or a hit area on the page with an upload data action. When you place that action on the button you will be given an option to use the default 2 column form for the template with Variable Name (as it appears in the model) on the left and value on the right) or a custom template form which is described in the sim + materials.

If you need anything else please let me know,

Billy

posted 11 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Blank initial decision inputs?

Hi Shayne,

No I am sorry - the only thing I would suggest would be to set the initial value outside of the range. Conditionals only operate on the values of variables - and blanking out a decision input does not blank out the value of the variable that it is displaying.

Billy

posted 11 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: out of range for numeric decision stepper

Hi Jack,

We have built and released the UI designer. Please re-publish your simulation and the problem will be solved.

Billy

posted 11 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Blank initial decision inputs?

Hi Shayne,

Just wanted to let you know that the feature went our for release on Friday and is all ready for your use from here on out.

To use it check off the checkbox in the Decision Input settings called "Initialize with blank value"

Best,

Billy

posted 11 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: financial table's label of time

Hi Muyuan,

In order to make the Financial table time column show 2000 to 2017 you will have to change your Vensim model so that the start time is 2000 and the end time is 2017. To do that go to the Model Menu then click settings, then select the Time Bounds tab and set INITIAL TIME to 2000 and FINAL TIME to 2017. This will break your loopup tables though if they are based on your current Time variable.

For #2 there is no time format which prints out the months.

Thanks,

Billy

posted 12 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Tolerance for difference

Hi Bobby,

What we do is the following:

a = first value
b = second value

1. For Equals:
ABS(a - b) < tolerance

2. For Greater Then

if not equal (using the above algorithm) then a > b

3. For Less Then

if not equal (using the above algorithm) then a < b

Let me know if this helps. If not we can get in touch and I can review your specific case.

Billy

posted 12 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Vensim Model Interface Run Time

Hi Muyuan

You will need to edit the equation for Final Time in your model. You can do that by placing a shadow variable for it in your sketch then converting it to a model variable (using the button to the left of the shadow variable button, and to the right of the flow icon). Once you have done that you can edit the equation for final time like a normal variable. To that equation you will want to do something like

6 + Extra Time

And to your model you will add a variable called Extra Time which represents the amount of extra time that the user wants to run. Make sure to set Extra Time to an auxiliary with gaming so that it can be changed over the course of the simulation. At this point you have finished editing your model and you now need to upload it to Simulate.

The charts in the UI designer will automatically adapt (along with the X axis labels)

posted 12 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Blank initial decision inputs?

HI Shayne,

After discussing with the team this is definitely something that we can do. We can do this by the week of June 25. I will keep you up to date with our progress.

Thanks!

Billy

posted 12 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Value Percent Changed

Hi Shayne,

The Percent Change option is used in the case where you have a base run for you simulation. The percent change option allows you to display the percent change for a specific variable between the base run and the current run in the current time step.

Any variable that you use a percent change with needs to be marked as a .SaveResult, and you need to set a Base Run.

Best,

Billy

posted 12 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Blank initial decision inputs?

Hi Shayne,

I think this is a feature that we may be able to implement. I am currently discussing it with the team in order to find an appropriate time for us to schedule it in. I will respond to you by Wednesday May 30th with what our plan for proceeding is.

Thanks!

Billy

posted 12 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Timer

Hi Bill

That is correct.

Billy

posted 12 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Timer

Hi Bill,

The timer will not start the next tick until the actions for the previous tick have been completed. This means you are then limited by both the interval and how long it takes to perform the actions you have added to the timer.

Billy

posted 12 months ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Blank initial decision inputs?

At this point in time the text inputs do not support this feature. What if you were to use nonsense values as the model defaults which are obviously wrong?

I am sorry that I do not have any other better solutions.

Billy

posted about 1 year ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Setting up and conducting multiplayer games

Hi Jürgen

We spoke this over and we think the best thing for us to do is going to be to create an Impersonate Team feature in the UI designer.

This would allow you as a class facilitator to pretend to be on any team. You would be able to step, reset, set decisions, look at results etc without having to create an extra role on each team, and without having to log in and out after each action.

This should cut down your login/logouts to just 1.

Best,

Billy

posted about 1 year ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Setting up and conducting multiplayer games

Hi,

Thanks for this! This has started off a real good discussion internally at Forio on how to change the UI designer. I will keep you updated on how we settle out on these issues.

Billy

posted about 1 year ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Multiplayer Settings

Hi Jürgen,

ExecuteDecisionImmediately does not work with Vensim models (its always off) and ResetDecision does not work either. Both of these are limitations of the Vensim engine. Let me see if I can't think of another way of having players signal to their facilitators that they are ready to advance the simulation.

Billy

posted about 1 year ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Multiplayer Settings

Hi Max,

So the issue that was preventing me from being able to investigate your issues around the ability for a facilitator to know when the users are ready to advance has been solved. What you are going to want to do is the following:

Create a variable like this:

D Advance Decision[Team] = 0
P Advance Decision.ExecuteDecisionImmediately = true
P Advance Decision.SaveResult = true
P Advance Decision.ResetDecision = true

Then using a Multiplayer In Progress Run Table you will want to add columns for the Advance Decision variable. Then when a player wants to mark that they are ready to advance they set the variable Advance Decision to 1.

This should be all that you need. Please let me know otherwise

Billy

posted about 1 year ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Multiplayer Problem

Hi Armand,

Let me handle your issues separately:

1. Facilitator
First, when you say facilitator I assume that you have gone to the user access pages and checked the box next to a particular user marking them as a facilitator. That person then does not have a team or a role, but does have the facilitator checkbox selected.

Therefore a Facilitator as I just described is NOT on any team, and does not have a role. This means when they perform an action in the simulation (such as stepping) that their behavior does not affect anyone but themself. If you want the simulation to advances for all members of a team, you need to have a member of the team (a group of people who all have the same team number) to press the Step button.

2. Chat -

Chat is very simple - all you do is drop the control on the page then any two people who are on the same team (have the same team number on the user access pages) can talk to each other through the component. There is no configuration as an author in the UI designer tool.

Best,

Billy

posted about 1 year ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Multiplayer Settings

Great,

Glad to hear the default_run works for your needs.

I will keep you up to date on the advance decision issue.

Best,

Billy

posted 8 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Not allow scaling Hi Muyuan, Sorry for being unclear -- I am referring to the horizontal scroll bar issue. As for the issues relating to the loss of internet it may be possible that this action was performed twice because during a period of disconnectivity the sim will try 3 times to contact the server and perform the action before it fails and tells you that it cannot connect. Therefore there is a chance that with spotty internet which is switching on and off that an action would be performed twice. If you see this issue repeatedly we can do a more indepth analysis of the problem, but at this point I would blame the problem on the internet connectivity issue. Billy

posted 8 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Not allow scaling Hi Muyuan, We have found the source of the bug and have fixed it. This fix will go out with our next release on Friday 9/28 Thanks for your help in finding this! Billy

posted 8 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Not allow scaling Hi Muyuan, Can you send me a link to the sim for which you are experiencing the problem Thanks Billy

posted 8 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Price War Simulation Hi Felix, I have copied a version of Price war into your account. It will expire in 1 week. Best, Billy

posted 8 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Price War Simulation Hi Peter, Sure I can give you a copy of that. Please send me a link to a sim of yours and I will place it into your account for 1 week. Also you are going to want to watch this video: http://forio.com/simulate/docs/index.php/page/384 Billy

posted 9 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Re-opening current UI page Hi Shayne, No, I am sorry, when users login they will be brought to the page specified in the settings for the Login Components. Billy

posted 9 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Displaying all users' results in Run table Hi Shayne, As a facilitator you should be able to see all saved runs belonging to any users in your group. Here is a good checklist of things to look for: #1: Do you show up anywhere in the user access pages? If yes you need to show up as a facilitator. If no then you are by default a facilitator in the 'default' group and will only have access to those users runs. #2: Do the users for which you want to see results for in a separate group? If yes, add yourself to that group and mark yourself as a facilitator. If no they are in the default group and there is something else going on here. Let me know if this helps, if not please link me to your simulation and I can look more indepth. Billy

posted 10 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: upload data didn't work Hi Muyuan, I think you mis-understood me. I meant to say that you want to have embed fonts selected. Billy

posted 10 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: upload data didn't work Hi Muyuan, If you are seeing "..." in the UI designer that is okay, it will happen sometimes. In order to make sure that you do not see ... in the published version of the interface please go to the Document Settings Panel and check off the box labeled "Embed Fonts" and re-publish your simulation. As for your other questions I will let Will handle them Billy

posted 11 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: variable format for drawable line chart Hi Muyuan - Vensim does not allow us to set the lookup table in variables which are auxiliary with lookup - in order to have control over the lookup you will have to break that table out into a separate variable with type lookup and change the type of the original variable back to plain old auxiliary. For the moment let us call this new variable Sample Table, and the original variable Sample Variable. What you can do is draw an arrow from Sample Table to Sample Variable. In the equation for Sample Variable you can write Sample Table(TIME) and Vensim will draw in shadow variable for time. This will do the exact same thing as auxiliary with lookup but will allow you to change the lookup in Forio Simulate. Please let me know if you have any more questions, Billy

posted 11 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: How to change graphical input Hi, The tool that you are looking for is called the Drawable Line Graph. It is used to set lookup tables by drawing behavior onto the graph. I imagine this question is in response to your TelService model which was converted from iThink. During that conversion process your lookups in iThink were converted to a format which is inaccessible to the Drawable Line Graph - to convert them into an accessible form look for something like the following V output = ARRAYGRAPHXY(input, { {0,0.1}, {0.5,0.5}, {1,0.9} }) and convert it into the following format D sample_table[1..3,1..2] = { {0,0.1}, {0.5,0.5}, {1,0.9} } V output = ARRAYGRAPHXY(input, sample_table) Then you will have access to the variable called sample_table in the UI designer for use in the drawable line graph. Remember though that everytime you re-import your iThink model you will have to re-convert your lookups. Billy

posted 11 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: upload data didn't work Hi Muyuan, I have fixed the errors that Will is referring to and I have placed a copy of a sim which uses all forms of data uploading into your account. When you use a sim with data upload there are 2 key things you need to do #1 - You need to make sure that everyone who uses the feature is logged in. In the sample sim I have placed into your account I have done that using the Login Components on the Login Page. Your other option would be to use the Authenticate User action before the Upload Data action #2 - You need to place a button or a hit area on the page with an upload data action. When you place that action on the button you will be given an option to use the default 2 column form for the template with Variable Name (as it appears in the model) on the left and value on the right) or a custom template form which is described in the sim + materials. If you need anything else please let me know, Billy

posted 11 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Blank initial decision inputs? Hi Shayne, No I am sorry - the only thing I would suggest would be to set the initial value outside of the range. Conditionals only operate on the values of variables - and blanking out a decision input does not blank out the value of the variable that it is displaying. Billy

posted 11 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: out of range for numeric decision stepper Hi Jack, We have built and released the UI designer. Please re-publish your simulation and the problem will be solved. Billy

posted 11 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Blank initial decision inputs? Hi Shayne, Just wanted to let you know that the feature went our for release on Friday and is all ready for your use from here on out. To use it check off the checkbox in the Decision Input settings called "Initialize with blank value" Best, Billy

posted 11 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: financial table's label of time Hi Muyuan, In order to make the Financial table time column show 2000 to 2017 you will have to change your Vensim model so that the start time is 2000 and the end time is 2017. To do that go to the Model Menu then click settings, then select the Time Bounds tab and set INITIAL TIME to 2000 and FINAL TIME to 2017. This will break your loopup tables though if they are based on your current Time variable. For #2 there is no time format which prints out the months. Thanks, Billy

posted 12 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Tolerance for difference Hi Bobby, What we do is the following: a = first value b = second value 1. For Equals: ABS(a - b) < tolerance 2. For Greater Then if not equal (using the above algorithm) then a > b 3. For Less Then if not equal (using the above algorithm) then a < b Let me know if this helps. If not we can get in touch and I can review your specific case. Billy

posted 12 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Vensim Model Interface Run Time Hi Muyuan You will need to edit the equation for Final Time in your model. You can do that by placing a shadow variable for it in your sketch then converting it to a model variable (using the button to the left of the shadow variable button, and to the right of the flow icon). Once you have done that you can edit the equation for final time like a normal variable. To that equation you will want to do something like 6 + Extra Time And to your model you will add a variable called Extra Time which represents the amount of extra time that the user wants to run. Make sure to set Extra Time to an auxiliary with gaming so that it can be changed over the course of the simulation. At this point you have finished editing your model and you now need to upload it to Simulate. The charts in the UI designer will automatically adapt (along with the X axis labels)

posted 12 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Blank initial decision inputs? HI Shayne, After discussing with the team this is definitely something that we can do. We can do this by the week of June 25. I will keep you up to date with our progress. Thanks! Billy

posted 12 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Value Percent Changed Hi Shayne, The Percent Change option is used in the case where you have a base run for you simulation. The percent change option allows you to display the percent change for a specific variable between the base run and the current run in the current time step. Any variable that you use a percent change with needs to be marked as a .SaveResult, and you need to set a Base Run. Best, Billy

posted 12 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Blank initial decision inputs? Hi Shayne, I think this is a feature that we may be able to implement. I am currently discussing it with the team in order to find an appropriate time for us to schedule it in. I will respond to you by Wednesday May 30th with what our plan for proceeding is. Thanks! Billy

posted 12 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Timer Hi Bill That is correct. Billy

posted 12 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Timer Hi Bill, The timer will not start the next tick until the actions for the previous tick have been completed. This means you are then limited by both the interval and how long it takes to perform the actions you have added to the timer. Billy

posted 12 months ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Blank initial decision inputs? At this point in time the text inputs do not support this feature. What if you were to use nonsense values as the model defaults which are obviously wrong? I am sorry that I do not have any other better solutions. Billy

posted about 1 year ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Setting up and conducting multiplayer games Hi Jürgen We spoke this over and we think the best thing for us to do is going to be to create an Impersonate Team feature in the UI designer. This would allow you as a class facilitator to pretend to be on any team. You would be able to step, reset, set decisions, look at results etc without having to create an extra role on each team, and without having to log in and out after each action. This should cut down your login/logouts to just 1. Best, Billy

posted about 1 year ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Setting up and conducting multiplayer games Hi, Thanks for this! This has started off a real good discussion internally at Forio on how to change the UI designer. I will keep you updated on how we settle out on these issues. Billy

posted about 1 year ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Multiplayer Settings Hi Jürgen, ExecuteDecisionImmediately does not work with Vensim models (its always off) and ResetDecision does not work either. Both of these are limitations of the Vensim engine. Let me see if I can't think of another way of having players signal to their facilitators that they are ready to advance the simulation. Billy

posted about 1 year ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Multiplayer Settings Hi Max, So the issue that was preventing me from being able to investigate your issues around the ability for a facilitator to know when the users are ready to advance has been solved. What you are going to want to do is the following: Create a variable like this: D Advance Decision[Team] = 0 P Advance Decision.ExecuteDecisionImmediately = true P Advance Decision.SaveResult = true P Advance Decision.ResetDecision = true Then using a Multiplayer In Progress Run Table you will want to add columns for the Advance Decision variable. Then when a player wants to mark that they are ready to advance they set the variable Advance Decision to 1. This should be all that you need. Please let me know otherwise Billy

posted about 1 year ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Multiplayer Problem Hi Armand, Let me handle your issues separately: 1. Facilitator First, when you say facilitator I assume that you have gone to the user access pages and checked the box next to a particular user marking them as a facilitator. That person then does not have a team or a role, but does have the facilitator checkbox selected. Therefore a Facilitator as I just described is NOT on any team, and does not have a role. This means when they perform an action in the simulation (such as stepping) that their behavior does not affect anyone but themself. If you want the simulation to advances for all members of a team, you need to have a member of the team (a group of people who all have the same team number) to press the Step button. 2. Chat - Chat is very simple - all you do is drop the control on the page then any two people who are on the same team (have the same team number on the user access pages) can talk to each other through the component. There is no configuration as an author in the UI designer tool. Best, Billy

posted about 1 year ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Multiplayer Settings Great, Glad to hear the default_run works for your needs. I will keep you up to date on the advance decision issue. Best, Billy

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