I am setting up a Place & Learn with Intuiface and Nexmosphere RFID sensors (one antenna only). Done. However, I am looking for a smarter way of doing the following:
At the moment, I have 10 products. I set up the first two products, like this:
When product A with Tag 1 is placed, go scene A
When Product A with Tag 1 is picked up, go to scene X
When product B with Tag 2 is placed, go scene B
When product B with Tag 2 is picked up, go to scene X
I could repeat this 10 times, and it works. But the automated brain of mine says, there should be a better way. I understand the the need to repeat the place 10 times, but why not just tell Intuiface, if the action of pickup any product, it should go to scene X. I tried a few tricks, but none worked.
There are multiple ways to address this, and I can think of at least 2 questions / things to consider
If you have 10 products, do you need 10 scenes because their content is really different, or could it be only 1 scene with content coming from H-CMS / Excel filtered by the Tag ID?
If so, use the Tag ID to filter that data source, then navigate to “Product Scene”
If you do need 10 different scenes, create a simple data source with 2 columns / fields: Tag ID / Scene Name
When a tag is placed, filter that data source, then navigate to scene → Bind the parameter to the remaining Scene name in your data source (result of your filter)
Let me know if one of these approaches works for you.
Thank you. I prefer the 10 scene option. I will try it. I am more concerned with what happens when I pick up the product. Because whenever a product is picked up they all go to the same scene. What was interesting was when I put if a command received is not equal to xxxxx go to that screne does not work.
The way I’d typically handle this (I think) would be to
When command is received, if command starts with “pu” → go to “Home” scene
When command is received, if command starts with “pb”
Filter Excel, using the full command as the filter parameter (ex: pb001)
Go to scene, binding the scene name to Excel filter result (scene name column)
If you wanted to be even quicker / simpler, but less “user-friendly” for whoever might work on this XP in the future, you could also just name your scenes “pb001”, “pb002”, etc… and just navigate to such the “command” received scene when that command starts with “pb”
That’s a big ugly / dirty in my books, risky if someone changes the name of a scene to make it more explicit, but it does work and doesn’t involve Excel or HCMS + Filtering.
Don’t hesitate to open a ticket with support if you want us to have a look at your XP.
Thank you. I do not like ugly. I like to document important stuff. I even watched some of your videos and create tutorials using PowerPoint using screenshot for almost every step. Thank you. I like this answer.