SysMLv1: Cameo Simulation Toolkit: HOWTO: Send a Signal via a nested Port using InvocationOnNestedPortAction and 'onNestedPort' together with 'onPort' [with mini video]

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TRAIL: SysMLv1/UML: Cameo Simulation Toolkit® (Magic Model Analyst®): Some basics for beginners and some more advanced cases [with mini videos]
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INTERMEDIATE
UML keywords
Activity
CallBehaviorAction
AcceptEventAction
SendSignalAction
InvocationAction::onPort
SysML keywords
InvocationOnNestedPortAction
InvocationOnNestedPortAction::onNestedPort
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SysML Activity Diagram
SysML Block Definition Diagram (BDD)

A Signal NSig is sent from a part for NestTX to a part for NestRX. For comparison three Signal send cases are shown:

  1. Send direct to a 'target' rx:NestRX and not via any Connector (shown in light yellow).
  2. Send via the outer "nesting" Port oi:F_Nester via the outer Connector (shown in blue).
  3. Send via the inner nested Port o:F_NSig via the inner1 Connector (shown in magenta).
For tracking a String 'case' is used as an attribute of Signal NSig and printed at the receiver.
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Note that:
SysMLv1: Cameo Simulation Toolkit: 2024x: GOTCHA: SendSignalAction: Nested Ports won't appear in the selection dialog for 'onPort' (or work for Drag n' Drop) unless «InvocationOnNestedPortAction» has been applied (they are filtered out).

Also, the naming of 'onNestedPort' in the SysMLv1 spec is slightly confusing, as here it is a "nesting" Port oi:F_Nester with a Type that HAS nested Ports, the nested Port o:F_NSig is assigned to 'onPort'.

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[NAMING, POLICY]{STRONG} Webel: For SysML Blocks and InterfaceBlocks used to type Ports with physical flows use 'F_UpperCamelCase' [may be combined with acronymn conventions]. The trailing part (after the underscore '_') may indicate the type that flows.
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SysMLv1: Cameo Simulation Toolkit: HOWTO send a Signal via a nested Port using Action Language Helper (ALH) [with mini video]
About the Action Language Helper (ALH) API
The vendor-specific Action Language Helper (ALH) API can be accessed from all of the various action scripting languages available in MagicDraw, Cameo Systems Modeler, and Cameo Simulation Toolkit
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