Secondary Resources Enhancement--New Skip Requirement If Property

In the Server, Combiner, Separator, Filler, & Emptier, for either Secondary Resources For Processing requirements or Task Resource Requirements, a new Skip Requirement If expression property is now provided. This feature allows for an optional condition that indicates whether to completely skip a resource requirement (both the seize and release steps).


For example, a user may have a modeling situation where a worker is only required sometimes for a particular task, thus needing the ability to filter out resource requirements on a requirement by requirement basis without having to define different tasks. For example, suppose the Object Name property for a resource requirement is specified as ModelEntity.WorkerReference where WorkerReference is a state variable on the entity that is set to Nothing if no worker is actually required. You would specify the Skip Requirement If conditional expression for that resource requirement as ‘ModelEntity.WorkerReference==Nothing’.

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