Hi Muhammad,
I understand that you want to develop a dynamic queue based on different priorities (“high”, “med” and “low”) of the entity and assign them the shortest queue. You have built upon the SimEvent example for “Comparing Queueing Strategies” and want some workaround for your use case.
Here is a possible workaround from the above understanding:
1. Firstly, based on your description the priority set under the “entity type” tab won’t have effect on your use case, since that parameter dictates the Event Calendar. To set priority that would be used in your model, you need to create the attribute “priority” and set their values according to the priority you want in each Entity Generator block, for instance high-1, med-2 and low-3 (following the convention of the Entity Generator block where smaller value is higher priority). You can also refer to the below documentation to know more about the entity attributes and priorities:
2. After creating the respective Entity Generator blocks and setting their “priority” attributes, input the entities into the Entity Queue block and setting the block parameters with “Queue Type: Priority”, “Priority source: priority”, “Sorting direction: Ascending”. This would then sort the queue dynamically from highest priority (value=1) to the lowest priority (value=3). You can refer to the below documentation to know more about the Entity Queue Block:
3. The Entity Queue Block would then output the entity in their priority order, and move onto the Entity Output Switch block, where you can set the “Switching criterion: From Attribute” and “Switch attribute name: priority”. You can refer to the below documentation to know more about the Entity Output Switch Block:
4. After this the entities can be directed towards their specific queues based on their priority. You can refer to the below documentation to know more about a similar use case as yours:
Hope it helps,
Regards,
Ayush Misra
