Getting Started

4 • THE ADVANCED PROCESS PANEL
Prompt
Connecting String
Structure
End of File Action
Initialize Option
Comment Character
Recordset Name
CommandText
CommandType
Named Range
Table Name
Description
Connection string used to open ADO connection to the data
source.
File structure, which can be unformatted, free format, or a
specific C or FORTRAN format.
Type of action to occur if an end of file condition is reached.
Action to be taken on file at beginning of each simulation
replication.
Character indicating comment record.
Name used to identify the recordset in the Expression,
ReadWrite, and Variable modules. This name must be unique
within the file. This field is available for Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Access
2007, and ActiveX Data Objects files.
Text of the command that will be used to open the recordset (for
example, SQL statement, procedure name, table name.) This
field is available for ActiveX Data Object files only.
Type of command entered in the CommandText.
The named range in the Excel workbook to which the recordset
refers.
The name of the table in the Access database to which the
recordset refers.
StateSet module
DESCRIPTION
The StateSet module is used to define states for a resource or number of resources.
The states may be associated with an autostate or may be new states for the resource.
The Resource module in the Basic Process panel references the stateset, if any, that a
given resource will use.
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