Simulator User Interface

Adeptia Simulation feature allows a user to simulate a process flow using different resource and scenarios. The process simulator is displayed below.

Figure 1: Adeptia Simulation

The Process Simulator application window is divided into seven sections:

Menu Bar
Tool Bar
Simulation Entities Panel
Simulation Control Panel
Graph Canvas
Bottom Pane

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

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.

Tool Bar
Options of the Tool bar are explained in Table 2
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
	Saved Scenario or Resource	Open Scenario or Resource saved on local hard disk.
	Save Scenario to Adeptia Server	Saves Scenario to Adeptia Server
	Save Scenario Locally	Saves Scenario to a local machine.
	Maximize/Restore Flow Canvas	Maximize and restore graph canvas.
	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

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.
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
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.

Graph Canvas
The Graph Canvas is the area where the selected process flow is shown. During the execution of the simulation scenario, progress of the simulation is shown in the graph canvas.
Bottom Pane
The Bottom Pane is used to view scenario properties of the activities, result of the scenario execution and errors, if any. There are three panels in the Bottom Pane:

Scenario Properties
Scenario Results
Alerts

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).

Figure 2: Preferences

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