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Figure 1: Adeptia Simulation


The Process Simulator application window is divided into seven sections:

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Menu Bar
Options of the Menu Bar are listed in the Table 1.
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Table 1: Menu Bar options

Menu Option

Sub-Option

Keyboard Shortcut

Simulation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New

Creates New Resource or Scenario

 

Open Locally Saved Resource or Scenario

Opens Resource or Scenario saved to a local machine. 

Save Scenario to Server

Saves Scenario to the Adeptia Server. 

Save Scenario Locally

Saves Scenario to a local machine. 

Show Scenario Properties Panel

Shows Scenario Properties of the selected activity 

Show Scenario Results Pane

Shows results of the running scenario 

Show Alerts Panel

Shows Alerts Panel 

Generate Simulation Summary Report

Generate reports of the executed simulation scenario

Modes

Online/Offline

Toggle between online and offline mode.

Help

Help

Displays help for the Process Modeler and Simulator Guide.


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Tool Bar
Options of the Tool bar are explained in Table 2
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Table 2: Tool Bar options

Button

Name

Function

Create New Resources

Opens Define Resource Set dialog box

Create New Scenario

Opens Define Scenario dialog box

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Open Locally Saved Scenario or Resource

Open Scenario or Resource saved on local hard disk.

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Save Scenario to Adeptia Server

Saves Scenario to Adeptia Server

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Save Scenario Locally

Saves Scenario to a local machine.

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Maximize/Restore Flow Canvas

Maximize and restore graph canvas.

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Synchronize with Adeptia Server

Synchronize the list of Resources and Scenarios from the Adeptia Server.

Show Properties Panel

Shows the Scenario Properties panel in the bottom pane.

Show Scenario Results Panel

Shows the Scenario Results Panel in the bottom pane

Show Alerts Panel

Show the Alerts panel in the bottom pane.

Generate Simulation Summary Report

Generates Reports of the executed scenario in HTML format


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Simulation Entities Panel
Simulation Entities panel contains a list of Resources and Scenarios. You can open or delete a resource or a scenario from here. You can also save another instance of resource or scenario from here.
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Simulation Control Panel
Simulation Panel is used to run the simulation and to control the simulation speed. Fields of the Simulation control panel and there descriptions are given in the Table 3
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Table 3: Edit Preferences

Field Name

Description

Selected Scenario

Shows the name of the scenario selected in the Simulation Entities panel

Comments

You can enter your comments here, before running the simulation. This comment is displayed in the Simulation Report

Time Unit

Select the time unit from the drop-down list. The selected time unit is used in the Simulation Report.

Start Time

Select the start date and time in mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm format. This is the actual time when your process flow execution will start.

Current Time

During the execution of Simulation scenario, it shows the current time based on the time specified in Start Time field.

End Time

When execution of simulation scenario is completed, it shows the actual time when process flow execution will be finished. This time is based on the start time specified in the Start Time field, number of count and the calendar specified.

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Preferences
Preferences
Preferences
The Preferences window allows you to select the background color of graph canvas and labels etc. To view the Preferences window, click Preferences tab (see Figure 2).

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Figure 2: Preferences

You can modify various preferences. These are listed in the Table 4.

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Table 4: Edit Preferences

Field Name

Description

Background Colors

Change the background color of the Graph Canvas, workflow Events Panel or Activities Panel.

Label Colors

Change the colors of labels of activities displayed in the Graph Canvas.

Validation

Verifies that the process flow created in the Graph Canvas is correct as per the workflow standard.
You can enable/disable Validation in the Preferences window. By default, it is enabled.

Revert Action

Reverts the action done by the user in the Graph Canvas.
You can enable/disable Validation in the Preferences window. By default, it is disabled.

Set Undo and Redo Limit

Set the number of actions that you can undo or redo.

Workflow Entities Colors

Change colors of Events, Activities, Gateways and Artifacts.

Default Location

Enables to set the default location of the for Adeptia Modeler image icons.

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