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posted 2 years ago

Forum: Support – Topic: Forio Simulate logo on start

Hello,

Right now we do not have that option. We will fix this with the next release so that any Professional or greater sim will not have that logo on load.

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Replacement Value using Interface Variable

Hello Bill,

I am un-able to reproduce. I am able to able to set a Scenario and have it change the value of text in a Text Entry.

I have tried in your sim and I see BankAccount x1234 in the input where it belongs, lets talk offline.

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Replacement Value using Interface Variable

This should work as described. I will look into why it is not. Which sim should I check?

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: User Is Not Logged In

Hey,

This is what we decided to do:

{$User.LoggedIn} = true / false so you can do conditionals based on if a user is logged in or not
{$User.Facilitator} = true / false so you can do conditionals based on if a user is a facilitator or not

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: User Is Not Logged In

Boolean, so in the conditional value box you would type in true or false, just like {$User.Ready To Step} from the multiplayer webinar.

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Drawing Object Type Component with Conditionals

Hey Bill,

Just want to let you know that we have added a border to the text component. This will go out with the next release.

The border will disappear when the text inside of the component is empty.

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: User Is Not Logged In

Hey,

Just wanted to let you know we will be adding {$User.isLoggedIn} and {$User.isFacilitator} in the next release on Friday.

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: User Is Not Logged In

Yea, its the string "Unknown" the best way to tell is to just print it on the page in a text component. Just type {$User.First Name} and you will see what its value is.

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: User Is Not Logged In

Hey,

Is this a multiplayer sim? If so you will want to check {$User.Role} == No Role.

If not a multiplayer sim, that check will not work. I guess we could add some more user properties like

{$User.isLoggedIn} and {$User.isFacilitator}

For right now I think you can check {$User.First Name} == Unknown, but that is not a stable long term thing

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Drawing Object Type Component with Conditionals

There is none, we would have to write it :-)

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Replacement Value using Interface Variable

Hello,

No, interface variables does not support Math or procedural programming. We try to keep all of the Math and logic in the model.

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Conditionals for OnLoadPage

Hello,

Would it make sense to use a button or hit area for that navigation? I am guessing not. What we could do is add actions to the link bar and text objects, that way you can add any arbitrary action (like set decision etc) to a link bar item, or text object. How does that sound?

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Drawing Object Type Component with Conditionals

Hello Bill,

Rather then add conditionals to the drawing objects I think it would make more sense to add a border to the Text component, since that is what you are aiming for right?

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Replacement Value using Interface Variable

Hey Bill,

You do not need a replacement value for an interface variable, just type the interface variable into any box which accepts a string and it will be translated.

For example lets say you have interface variable {$my_name} with a default value of "John"

If you type into a Text component {$my_name} "John" will be printed.

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Editing XML documents

Hello Bill,

Editing interface.xml or any of the .xml files in the /pages folder creates the potential for you to corrupt your UI, and place it into a state which cannot be recovered. With that in mind we strongly recommend that you do not directly edit those files, but rather use the UI designer to accomplish the tasks that you need.

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Publish and Preview crash

Hello Roxanne,

I apologize for not replying here sooner. Your issue has been fixed.

Thank you for your patience,

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Publish and Preview crash

Hello Roxanne,

We have found the source of the problem and we are going to be issuing a fix for it within the next 1-2hrs.

I will reply here when the release has been released.

Thanks so much for your patience,

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Saving runs

Hey Bill,

Let me describe what save run does.

It does NOT save a run at a current point in time, rather it is a flag on the run which is either true (for saved) or false (for not saved). Let me give you an example to understand the concept with

Lets say you have a sim that goes from Time 0 to Time 10, and in time 0 the user hits the save run button, then in time 5 they change a decision, then they step to end and complete the sim. In this case the run will be stored NOT in step 0, but in Step 10, with the change in the decision.

To re-iterate the Save Run action does not store a run at a certain point in time, but rather is a marker on the run letting Simulate know whether or not it should show up in the Run Table etc.

Now that you know how runs work you can understand how if you name and describe the same run twice, only your second set of name/description will be stored with the run (it will overwrite the first)

Hope this help! If not let me know

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Play against the computer

Hello Bill,

Right now we do not yet have the ability to program AIs into multiplayer games, but what you can do is make your model have fewer roles and code into the model how it responds to decisions belonging to the roles which are left and being played by humans.

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Is it possible for me to share my simulation?

Hello Prompong,

Let me tell you a bit about what Clear Default Run and Set Default Run do. I do not believe that you want these actions in your simulation, they are the source of the behavior that you are seeing. If you remove them the sim will work as you expect it to.

Both Clear Default Run and Set Default Run (along with a few other actions listed here: http://forio.com/simulate/docs/index.php/docs/article/168/, scroll to the part about actions) are only able to be preformed by an author, or administrator. What this means is that you have to be an author in able to press that button, but since you are sharing that link with people who are not you (author of the simulation) they are not able to press that button.

The only uses of the actions listed as admin/author only are on facilitator pages where you as an author are reviewing the results of other people playing your game.

To sum up, remove the Clear Default Run Action (and any other Admin only action you may have in your sim) from buttons (or Hit Areas) that are going to be pressed by regular users and your simulation will work as expected.

Thanks so much, and I apologize for the confusion!

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Restrict scenario by user

Hello Bill,

Thanks for looking through the help documents, but no right now this is not possible unless you do a login conditional based on the user's name or something un-maintable like that.

I will add this to our to-do list, but I cannot promise an implementation date right now.

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Authenticate User

Hello,

Yes, this will popup a window with a login components and a register new user field if the current user is not signed into the simulation.

If you login through this component you would have no need for a Login Components.

I find it most useful for sims that "Allow Self Register" that way you can actually have users register :-).

That reminds me, please make sure the Allow Self Register checkbox in you settings are set if you add it to your simulation.

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Problem with Data Table

Hello Ron,

We have found the source of the problem and fixed the problem in development code.

The issue was with having a Data Table inside of a Tab Navigator. When that happened it was using the wrong fonts and therefore invisible.

The best workaround for this issue is to go into the document settings and uncheck "Allow Scaling" by doing this the problem will go away.

As an FYI we will be doing a release shortly with the fix to the underlying bug and when that happens I will let you know

Thanks so much!

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Preview and Publish stop working

Hello,

No problem. If you would like I would be more then happy to explain how they work. Here is some documentation here: http://forio.com/simulate/docs/index.php/docs/article/258/.

As for problems with deleting them that is our fault and that will be fixed with the next release. Thank you for being cognizant of them in the meantime though!

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Preview and Publish stop working

Hello Roxane,

I have fixed your simulation. The issue was that you were using an interface variable in one of your scenarios which did not exist in the simulation. I imagine that at some point you deleted that interface variable.

What I have done to your simulation is to delete all remaining empty scenarios from your simulation. In the next release of the software we will do better error checking which will delete the interface variables from a scenario when you delete them from the simulation.

What this means for you in the meantime is when you delete an interface variable from your simulation please also remember to delete it from any scenarios which it references.

Thanks

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Preview and Publish stop working

Hello Roxanne,

I am Billy Schoenberg, a developer with Forio Business Simulations. I will be looking into this. I will get back to you shortly with a reason why this has happened.

Thank you

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: HTML Markup in Text Component

Hello,

I understand it to mean that <ol> and <ul> are required, but it does not distinguish between them, so just be consistent in your use.

Billy

posted 2 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: HTML Markup in Text Component

Hey Bill,

This site lists all of the supported HTML. The <ul> <ol> stuff works kind of weird.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/flash/text/TextField.html#htmlText

Have a good one,

Billy

posted almost 3 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Reset Vars

Hello Bill,

Reset Simulation resets both the simulation time to the beginning as well as all decision to their defaults

Reset Vars resets the simulation time to the beginning, but applies the final value of decisions from the last run to the new run.

In both cases time is set to Initial Time, and all calculated variables (non-decision) get reset to their model defaults

Billy

posted almost 3 years ago

Billy Schoen... 255 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Scatter Graph Axes

Hello,

The way you described the feature is bang on! Since #1 works for you we will start with #1. This fix will be an option (which will be off by default) and therefore will not affect already created sims. This feature will not make the cut for tonight's release, therefore we are looking at an early Sept. deployment.

Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Forio Simulate logo on start Hello, Right now we do not have that option. We will fix this with the next release so that any Professional or greater sim will not have that logo on load. Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Replacement Value using Interface Variable Hello Bill, I am un-able to reproduce. I am able to able to set a Scenario and have it change the value of text in a Text Entry. I have tried in your sim and I see BankAccount x1234 in the input where it belongs, lets talk offline. Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Replacement Value using Interface Variable This should work as described. I will look into why it is not. Which sim should I check?

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: User Is Not Logged In Hey, This is what we decided to do: {$User.LoggedIn} = true / false so you can do conditionals based on if a user is logged in or not {$User.Facilitator} = true / false so you can do conditionals based on if a user is a facilitator or not Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: User Is Not Logged In Boolean, so in the conditional value box you would type in true or false, just like {$User.Ready To Step} from the multiplayer webinar. Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Drawing Object Type Component with Conditionals Hey Bill, Just want to let you know that we have added a border to the text component. This will go out with the next release. The border will disappear when the text inside of the component is empty. Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: User Is Not Logged In Hey, Just wanted to let you know we will be adding {$User.isLoggedIn} and {$User.isFacilitator} in the next release on Friday. Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: User Is Not Logged In Yea, its the string "Unknown" the best way to tell is to just print it on the page in a text component. Just type {$User.First Name} and you will see what its value is.

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: User Is Not Logged In Hey, Is this a multiplayer sim? If so you will want to check {$User.Role} == No Role. If not a multiplayer sim, that check will not work. I guess we could add some more user properties like {$User.isLoggedIn} and {$User.isFacilitator} For right now I think you can check {$User.First Name} == Unknown, but that is not a stable long term thing Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Drawing Object Type Component with Conditionals There is none, we would have to write it :-) Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Replacement Value using Interface Variable Hello, No, interface variables does not support Math or procedural programming. We try to keep all of the Math and logic in the model. Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Conditionals for OnLoadPage Hello, Would it make sense to use a button or hit area for that navigation? I am guessing not. What we could do is add actions to the link bar and text objects, that way you can add any arbitrary action (like set decision etc) to a link bar item, or text object. How does that sound? Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Drawing Object Type Component with Conditionals Hello Bill, Rather then add conditionals to the drawing objects I think it would make more sense to add a border to the Text component, since that is what you are aiming for right? Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Replacement Value using Interface Variable Hey Bill, You do not need a replacement value for an interface variable, just type the interface variable into any box which accepts a string and it will be translated. For example lets say you have interface variable {$my_name} with a default value of "John" If you type into a Text component {$my_name} "John" will be printed. Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Editing XML documents Hello Bill, Editing interface.xml or any of the .xml files in the /pages folder creates the potential for you to corrupt your UI, and place it into a state which cannot be recovered. With that in mind we strongly recommend that you do not directly edit those files, but rather use the UI designer to accomplish the tasks that you need. Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Publish and Preview crash Hello Roxanne, I apologize for not replying here sooner. Your issue has been fixed. Thank you for your patience, Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Publish and Preview crash Hello Roxanne, We have found the source of the problem and we are going to be issuing a fix for it within the next 1-2hrs. I will reply here when the release has been released. Thanks so much for your patience, Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Saving runs Hey Bill, Let me describe what save run does. It does NOT save a run at a current point in time, rather it is a flag on the run which is either true (for saved) or false (for not saved). Let me give you an example to understand the concept with Lets say you have a sim that goes from Time 0 to Time 10, and in time 0 the user hits the save run button, then in time 5 they change a decision, then they step to end and complete the sim. In this case the run will be stored NOT in step 0, but in Step 10, with the change in the decision. To re-iterate the Save Run action does not store a run at a certain point in time, but rather is a marker on the run letting Simulate know whether or not it should show up in the Run Table etc. Now that you know how runs work you can understand how if you name and describe the same run twice, only your second set of name/description will be stored with the run (it will overwrite the first) Hope this help! If not let me know Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Play against the computer Hello Bill, Right now we do not yet have the ability to program AIs into multiplayer games, but what you can do is make your model have fewer roles and code into the model how it responds to decisions belonging to the roles which are left and being played by humans. Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Is it possible for me to share my simulation? Hello Prompong, Let me tell you a bit about what Clear Default Run and Set Default Run do. I do not believe that you want these actions in your simulation, they are the source of the behavior that you are seeing. If you remove them the sim will work as you expect it to. Both Clear Default Run and Set Default Run (along with a few other actions listed here: http://forio.com/simulate/docs/index.php/docs/article/168/, scroll to the part about actions) are only able to be preformed by an author, or administrator. What this means is that you have to be an author in able to press that button, but since you are sharing that link with people who are not you (author of the simulation) they are not able to press that button. The only uses of the actions listed as admin/author only are on facilitator pages where you as an author are reviewing the results of other people playing your game. To sum up, remove the Clear Default Run Action (and any other Admin only action you may have in your sim) from buttons (or Hit Areas) that are going to be pressed by regular users and your simulation will work as expected. Thanks so much, and I apologize for the confusion! Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Restrict scenario by user Hello Bill, Thanks for looking through the help documents, but no right now this is not possible unless you do a login conditional based on the user's name or something un-maintable like that. I will add this to our to-do list, but I cannot promise an implementation date right now. Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Authenticate User Hello, Yes, this will popup a window with a login components and a register new user field if the current user is not signed into the simulation. If you login through this component you would have no need for a Login Components. I find it most useful for sims that "Allow Self Register" that way you can actually have users register :-). That reminds me, please make sure the Allow Self Register checkbox in you settings are set if you add it to your simulation. Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Problem with Data Table Hello Ron, We have found the source of the problem and fixed the problem in development code. The issue was with having a Data Table inside of a Tab Navigator. When that happened it was using the wrong fonts and therefore invisible. The best workaround for this issue is to go into the document settings and uncheck "Allow Scaling" by doing this the problem will go away. As an FYI we will be doing a release shortly with the fix to the underlying bug and when that happens I will let you know Thanks so much! Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Preview and Publish stop working Hello, No problem. If you would like I would be more then happy to explain how they work. Here is some documentation here: http://forio.com/simulate/docs/index.php/docs/article/258/. As for problems with deleting them that is our fault and that will be fixed with the next release. Thank you for being cognizant of them in the meantime though! Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Preview and Publish stop working Hello Roxane, I have fixed your simulation. The issue was that you were using an interface variable in one of your scenarios which did not exist in the simulation. I imagine that at some point you deleted that interface variable. What I have done to your simulation is to delete all remaining empty scenarios from your simulation. In the next release of the software we will do better error checking which will delete the interface variables from a scenario when you delete them from the simulation. What this means for you in the meantime is when you delete an interface variable from your simulation please also remember to delete it from any scenarios which it references. Thanks Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Preview and Publish stop working Hello Roxanne, I am Billy Schoenberg, a developer with Forio Business Simulations. I will be looking into this. I will get back to you shortly with a reason why this has happened. Thank you Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: HTML Markup in Text Component Hello, I understand it to mean that <ol> and <ul> are required, but it does not distinguish between them, so just be consistent in your use. Billy

posted 2 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: HTML Markup in Text Component Hey Bill, This site lists all of the supported HTML. The <ul> <ol> stuff works kind of weird. http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/flash/text/TextField.html#htmlText Have a good one, Billy

posted almost 3 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Reset Vars Hello Bill, Reset Simulation resets both the simulation time to the beginning as well as all decision to their defaults Reset Vars resets the simulation time to the beginning, but applies the final value of decisions from the last run to the new run. In both cases time is set to Initial Time, and all calculated variables (non-decision) get reset to their model defaults Billy

posted almost 3 years ago Billy Schoen... 255 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Scatter Graph Axes Hello, The way you described the feature is bang on! Since #1 works for you we will start with #1. This fix will be an option (which will be off by default) and therefore will not affect already created sims. This feature will not make the cut for tonight's release, therefore we are looking at an early Sept. deployment. Billy

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