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posted 12 months ago

Forum: Support – Topic: Timer

Just to confirm I get it...

If the [real] time required for the simulation to move 1 TimeStep is greater than the number of milliseconds allotted in the Timer Interval property, the simulation time requirement prevails. So I had set the Interval milliseconds to 500, the same as one-half second. If the simulation itself takes three-quarters of a second for one TimeStep to process, there is no way two TimeSteps will fit into a real second.

posted 12 months ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Timer

The timer synchronizes actions to the system clock, correct?

For:
M EndTime = 60.0
M TimeStep = 1.0
Timer Interval (milliseconds) = 1000
Timer Action = Step = 1

the simulation should last 60 real seconds, one TimeStep per second, correct? (That is the result I get.)

However, changing the Interval in milliseconds does not appear to change the real time the simulation takes. I would expect:

M EndTime = 60.0
M TimeStep = 1.0
Timer Interval (milliseconds) = 500
Timer Action = Step = 1

to cause the 60 TimeSteps to occur in 30 real seconds (or two TimeSteps per real second). The result however is the same - it takes 60 real seconds for the simulation to run.

I searched documentation and Support messages without finding anything that addresses this.

Bill

Follow-on:

For:
M EndTime = 60.0
M TimeStep = 1.0
Timer Interval (milliseconds) = 5000
Timer Action = Step = 1

the simulation advances 1 TimeStep for every five real seconds, as expected. It seems to be values under 1000 that do not have the effect of more than one TimeStep per real second, proportional to 1000/X, where X is the Interval in milliseconds.

See /bbsim/fire/.

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Execute Decision Immediately

This is a very useful property on many fronts. The one draw back I experience is in charts, where decisions for the next round instantly take effect in the chart, seemingly altering the results from the round just finished.

If a decision parameter has been assigned the property "ResetDecision", combined with the phenomena described above, charts appear to describe a downward trend (when in fact it is simply displaying the reset to the default value of the parameter, in this case zero (0)).

Is there any way that a property can be added to charts to set the Execute Decision Immediately to false for the purposes of chart display?

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Work in Progress Graph

I don't find any documentation for this property. Could you describe it?

Thank you,

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Multiple IF Elements

Thanks, Will. I was getting a compile error and thought I had the wrong syntax. Now that I look at it, the error was a variable typo, not the syntax itself.

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Multiple IF Elements

In Constructor a valid equation is:

IF(A AND B,1,0)

Is the FML equivalent IF(AND(A,B),1,0)?

Thank you,

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Surrounding Background Color

When a simulation is run, a narrow white margin surrounds the Surrounding Background along the outer edges of the browser window. It appears on the left and right, and between the Surrounding Background and the Forio banner at the bottom.

Is there any way to control the color of that area?

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: NumberFormat Property & Replacement Values

In the model two variables have the NumberFormat property defined, both with the same format - "###.#%".

Both are used as Replacement Values. One of them appears as expected, the other does not. Any suggestions on what I might have missed?

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Reset Decision

Hi Tod,

My impression is that if the slider default value is 0 (zero) and possible values range from -5 to 5, and the user drags the button to 3, then clicks Run (Step 1), the button ought to return to 0. Are we saying the same thing?

ref: /bbsim/bbsim9/

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Reset Decision

Equations and properties are:

D d_RookieFTEHires = 0
P d_RookieFTEHires.TimeSeries = "false"
P d_RookieFTEHires.ExecuteDecisionImmediately = true
P d_RookieFTEHires.ResetDecision = true

A slider is used to set the value. Button action is Step, advance 1 time unit. After advancing one step, the slider button remains at the last value.

Is this normal behavior? Should the slider respond to ResetDecision?

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Renders Different in Different Browsers

Follow-on...

Allow Scaling is UNCHECKED.

Embed Fonts is CHECKED.

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Renders Different in Different Browsers

ref: http://impactsimulations.basicbusinesssim.com

I am using <object></object> to display a simulation in a web page. The Document size is 1024x721. The <object> width is 1050, the height is 900, which appears to be enough to accommodate the Forio banner at the bottom.

Three numbers are either not displaying, or displaying incompletely (e.g., one digit instead of two; 2 instead of 27) on some browsers but not others.

The numbers are:
1. Regular [ 27 ] + Promo [ 0 ] = ?? (All numbers are interface variables)
2. "Totals" at the bottom of the "Now" column (Value component)
3. "Totals" at the bottom of the "Next Week Total" column (Value component)

IE 8 - OK
FF 8 - OK
Opera 11.6 - Problematic
Safari 4.0.4 - Problematic
Chrome 16.0.912.63 m - Problematic

I am stumped and cannot figure out what to do to have the simulation render the same in all browsers.

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Line Chart

Thank you, Tod. I'll work with that see what emerges. I suggest this as a property for charts.

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Line Chart

Is it possible to have Y-Axis ticks without displaying any Y-Axis values/numbers?

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Embed Fonts

Thank you, Tod.

I am working to specification. I'll check with the graphic artist and get his opinion, and will pass along your suggestions.

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Embed Fonts

Related...

Arial Black is not rendering smoothly. Is that related in any way to Embed Fonts? If not, are there other tweaks that will improve its look?

(Arial [plain] renders very nicely.)

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Embed Fonts

Disregard...unchecking Allow Scaling makes Embed Font available.

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Embed Fonts

On the Document Settings tab this property is greyed out and cannot be selected. Is there another property somewhere I might have changed that causes this?

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Font Rendering in Preview

That did it, thanks, Tod. It also appears to have solved another problem, where a button was failing to display all the button text, and the button itself was shifting from its Interface mode XY coordinates.

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Font Rendering in Preview

In Preview mode the fonts in Text components are rendering differently than in Interface mode. By comparison, the font in Interface mode appears more bold than in Preview mode (though the text does not have the bold property applied).

Is this normal? And, once published, will the text appear more like the Interface mode rendering or the Preview mode rendering?

Simulation is /bbsim/bbsim5/ if you want to take a look.

Thank you,

Bill Braun

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Buttons on Template

Disregard...pilot error.

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Buttons on Template

Should the buttons on a template work on every page to which the template is applied?

Related, if a template is changed, should the change automatically apply to every page where the template has been used? DO the templates have to be reapplied for the changes to take?

Thank you,

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Custom Number Formats

Ah..no, on the Leading Character field question. Will give that a try.

Thank you, Tod.

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Custom Number Formats

Hi Tod,

I'm not following you. I want the number to appear $1,234 (dollar sign, thousands separator). I created the custom format (tried it twice, two different names). When I create the custom format (for the first time) it does apply it to the Value component I am working on, but thereafter, for any other Value component, selecting the custom format from the dropdown list fails to apply the format.

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Custom Number Formats

Separate but related.

I created a custom format named CurrencyK:

Format: $#,##0
Show Thousands Separator: CHECKED
Saved

Applying the format to other components (in this case a Value component) fails to display the expected format ($1,234).

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Custom Number Formats

Disregard. Found Document Settings > Variable/Number Format properties. That does it.

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Constructor to FML Translation

Thanks, Will, that hits the nail on the head. For different reasons I had already removed the INT and CEIL and FLOOR functions, which explains why they are not there. The round up/round down issue explains why the IF statement is introduced. That should do it.

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Canvas size for tablets

Thank you, Tod. Canvass size recommendation is helpful. News of being able to run on iPad is very welcome. Do you have a target date for the upgrade?

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Constructor to FML Translation

Trying to understand the FML syntax...

Constructor equations is:

ProductClass=Good,Better,Best)
i=ProductClass
ActualCompletedSales*AdjProductPurchasesByClass(i)*MeanItemsPerCustomerForSalesMade

Corresponding FML equation (after being imported) is:

FOREACH(i, ProductClass, IF((ActualCompletedSales * AdjProductPurchasesByClass[i] * MeanItemsPerCustomerForSalesMade)<0, (ActualCompletedSales * AdjProductPurchasesByClass[i] * MeanItemsPerCustomerForSalesMade, 1), (ActualCompletedSales * AdjProductPurchasesByClass[i] * MeanItemsPerCustomerForSalesMade)))

How did the IF function make its way in there, and what purpose does it serve?

Thank you,

Bill

posted over 1 year ago

Basic Busine... 173 posts

Forum: Support – Topic: Custom Number Formats

Is there a way to delete saved custom formats. Made a mess, want to start over.

Bill

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posted 12 months ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Timer Just to confirm I get it... If the [real] time required for the simulation to move 1 TimeStep is greater than the number of milliseconds allotted in the Timer Interval property, the simulation time requirement prevails. So I had set the Interval milliseconds to 500, the same as one-half second. If the simulation itself takes three-quarters of a second for one TimeStep to process, there is no way two TimeSteps will fit into a real second.

posted 12 months ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Timer The timer synchronizes actions to the system clock, correct? For: M EndTime = 60.0 M TimeStep = 1.0 Timer Interval (milliseconds) = 1000 Timer Action = Step = 1 the simulation should last 60 real seconds, one TimeStep per second, correct? (That is the result I get.) However, changing the Interval in milliseconds does not appear to change the real time the simulation takes. I would expect: M EndTime = 60.0 M TimeStep = 1.0 Timer Interval (milliseconds) = 500 Timer Action = Step = 1 to cause the 60 TimeSteps to occur in 30 real seconds (or two TimeSteps per real second). The result however is the same - it takes 60 real seconds for the simulation to run. I searched documentation and Support messages without finding anything that addresses this. Bill Follow-on: For: M EndTime = 60.0 M TimeStep = 1.0 Timer Interval (milliseconds) = 5000 Timer Action = Step = 1 the simulation advances 1 TimeStep for every five real seconds, as expected. It seems to be values under 1000 that do not have the effect of more than one TimeStep per real second, proportional to 1000/X, where X is the Interval in milliseconds. See /bbsim/fire/.

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Execute Decision Immediately This is a very useful property on many fronts. The one draw back I experience is in charts, where decisions for the next round instantly take effect in the chart, seemingly altering the results from the round just finished. If a decision parameter has been assigned the property "ResetDecision", combined with the phenomena described above, charts appear to describe a downward trend (when in fact it is simply displaying the reset to the default value of the parameter, in this case zero (0)). Is there any way that a property can be added to charts to set the Execute Decision Immediately to false for the purposes of chart display? Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Work in Progress Graph I don't find any documentation for this property. Could you describe it? Thank you, Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Multiple IF Elements Thanks, Will. I was getting a compile error and thought I had the wrong syntax. Now that I look at it, the error was a variable typo, not the syntax itself. Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Multiple IF Elements In Constructor a valid equation is: IF(A AND B,1,0) Is the FML equivalent IF(AND(A,B),1,0)? Thank you, Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Surrounding Background Color When a simulation is run, a narrow white margin surrounds the Surrounding Background along the outer edges of the browser window. It appears on the left and right, and between the Surrounding Background and the Forio banner at the bottom. Is there any way to control the color of that area? Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: NumberFormat Property & Replacement Values In the model two variables have the NumberFormat property defined, both with the same format - "###.#%". Both are used as Replacement Values. One of them appears as expected, the other does not. Any suggestions on what I might have missed? Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Reset Decision Hi Tod, My impression is that if the slider default value is 0 (zero) and possible values range from -5 to 5, and the user drags the button to 3, then clicks Run (Step 1), the button ought to return to 0. Are we saying the same thing? ref: /bbsim/bbsim9/

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Reset Decision Equations and properties are: D d_RookieFTEHires = 0 P d_RookieFTEHires.TimeSeries = "false" P d_RookieFTEHires.ExecuteDecisionImmediately = true P d_RookieFTEHires.ResetDecision = true A slider is used to set the value. Button action is Step, advance 1 time unit. After advancing one step, the slider button remains at the last value. Is this normal behavior? Should the slider respond to ResetDecision? Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Renders Different in Different Browsers Follow-on... Allow Scaling is UNCHECKED. Embed Fonts is CHECKED. Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Renders Different in Different Browsers ref: http://impactsimulations.basicbusinesssim.com I am using <object></object> to display a simulation in a web page. The Document size is 1024x721. The <object> width is 1050, the height is 900, which appears to be enough to accommodate the Forio banner at the bottom. Three numbers are either not displaying, or displaying incompletely (e.g., one digit instead of two; 2 instead of 27) on some browsers but not others. The numbers are: 1. Regular [ 27 ] + Promo [ 0 ] = ?? (All numbers are interface variables) 2. "Totals" at the bottom of the "Now" column (Value component) 3. "Totals" at the bottom of the "Next Week Total" column (Value component) IE 8 - OK FF 8 - OK Opera 11.6 - Problematic Safari 4.0.4 - Problematic Chrome 16.0.912.63 m - Problematic I am stumped and cannot figure out what to do to have the simulation render the same in all browsers. Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Line Chart Thank you, Tod. I'll work with that see what emerges. I suggest this as a property for charts. Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Line Chart Is it possible to have Y-Axis ticks without displaying any Y-Axis values/numbers? Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Embed Fonts Thank you, Tod. I am working to specification. I'll check with the graphic artist and get his opinion, and will pass along your suggestions. Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Embed Fonts Related... Arial Black is not rendering smoothly. Is that related in any way to Embed Fonts? If not, are there other tweaks that will improve its look? (Arial [plain] renders very nicely.) Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Embed Fonts Disregard...unchecking Allow Scaling makes Embed Font available.

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Embed Fonts On the Document Settings tab this property is greyed out and cannot be selected. Is there another property somewhere I might have changed that causes this? Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Font Rendering in Preview That did it, thanks, Tod. It also appears to have solved another problem, where a button was failing to display all the button text, and the button itself was shifting from its Interface mode XY coordinates. Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Font Rendering in Preview In Preview mode the fonts in Text components are rendering differently than in Interface mode. By comparison, the font in Interface mode appears more bold than in Preview mode (though the text does not have the bold property applied). Is this normal? And, once published, will the text appear more like the Interface mode rendering or the Preview mode rendering? Simulation is /bbsim/bbsim5/ if you want to take a look. Thank you, Bill Braun

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Buttons on Template Disregard...pilot error.

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Buttons on Template Should the buttons on a template work on every page to which the template is applied? Related, if a template is changed, should the change automatically apply to every page where the template has been used? DO the templates have to be reapplied for the changes to take? Thank you, Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Custom Number Formats Ah..no, on the Leading Character field question. Will give that a try. Thank you, Tod.

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Custom Number Formats Hi Tod, I'm not following you. I want the number to appear $1,234 (dollar sign, thousands separator). I created the custom format (tried it twice, two different names). When I create the custom format (for the first time) it does apply it to the Value component I am working on, but thereafter, for any other Value component, selecting the custom format from the dropdown list fails to apply the format. Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Custom Number Formats Separate but related. I created a custom format named CurrencyK: Format: $#,##0 Show Thousands Separator: CHECKED Saved Applying the format to other components (in this case a Value component) fails to display the expected format ($1,234). Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Custom Number Formats Disregard. Found Document Settings > Variable/Number Format properties. That does it. Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Constructor to FML Translation Thanks, Will, that hits the nail on the head. For different reasons I had already removed the INT and CEIL and FLOOR functions, which explains why they are not there. The round up/round down issue explains why the IF statement is introduced. That should do it. Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Canvas size for tablets Thank you, Tod. Canvass size recommendation is helpful. News of being able to run on iPad is very welcome. Do you have a target date for the upgrade? Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Constructor to FML Translation Trying to understand the FML syntax... Constructor equations is: ProductClass=Good,Better,Best) i=ProductClass ActualCompletedSalesAdjProductPurchasesByClass(i)MeanItemsPerCustomerForSalesMade Corresponding FML equation (after being imported) is: FOREACH(i, ProductClass, IF((ActualCompletedSales * AdjProductPurchasesByClass[i] * MeanItemsPerCustomerForSalesMade)<0, (ActualCompletedSales * AdjProductPurchasesByClass[i] * MeanItemsPerCustomerForSalesMade, 1), (ActualCompletedSales * AdjProductPurchasesByClass[i] * MeanItemsPerCustomerForSalesMade))) How did the IF function make its way in there, and what purpose does it serve? Thank you, Bill

posted over 1 year ago Basic Busine... 173 posts	Forum: Support – Topic: Custom Number Formats Is there a way to delete saved custom formats. Made a mess, want to start over. Bill