Activity’s Duration and Time-based Events
You need to enhance your models with information about the duration of activities or the effective dates of events. When you are going to assign an inter-arrival time (to an event) or a duration (to an activity), the Time Editor appears (see picture below).
Three Perspectives
The Time Editor offers three perspectives, which provide different approaches for assigning timing information:
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The Time Span mode: This allows you to set up any distribution for an inter-arrival time or a duration
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This mode allows further formalization of the time span of an activity (Scripted duration) by using the Python programming language.
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The Time Instant mode: This allows you to pick the start date from a calendar and then assign a rate at which the event will be repeated
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This mode allows further formalization of the time instants (Scripted Time Instants) by using the Python programming language.
The Time Instant mode is not available for durations of activities -
