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Table of Contents
Organization of the SIMPROCESS Documentation Set ......................... 5
CHAPTER 1 
Reusable Templates and Libraries................................................. 8
Library Concepts .......................................................................... 9
Defining and Editing Templates ................................................ 10
Editing Templates ....................................................................... 20
Advantage of Templates Over Copy/Paste ............................... 22
CHAPTER 2 
Customizing a Model with Attributes and Expressions .............. 23
Introduction to Attributes and Expressions ............................. 25
Using Attributes in SIMPROCESS........................................... 27
User Defined Attributes.............................................................. 28
Assign Activity............................................................................. 35
Variable Resource Usage............................................................ 37
Writing Expressions ................................................................... 42
Evaluate (Evl) Function.............................................................. 54
Expression Activation Events .................................................... 55
Attribute Value Initialization .................................................... 59
Example: Batching Entities Based on Weight.......................... 60
Getting and Freeing Resources Using Expressions ................. 71
Creating Resources Using Expressions..................................... 74
Changing Resource Capacity With Expressions...................... 81
Setting Maximum Resource Wait With Expressions .............. 82
User-Defined Functions .............................................................. 83
Dynamic Labels........................................................................... 84
Interfacing With A Database ..................................................... 86
Interfacing With A Spreadsheet ................................................ 92
Accessing Statistics During Simulation..................................... 97
Creating and Controlling Plots With Expressions................. 105
Summary.................................................................................... 109
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