How do Multiple tabs in Process Executor Work?

General Questions
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Hello!
I thought I could save myself some time and make a few less nodes by having a single node with two process executor tabs. What I am trying to accomplish is two different break times. One at 2 hour in and one at 6 hours in. All I am doing is reserving the resource after a set amount of time for a set amount of time.

My original thought was that they went in order, one after the other. So, I had a delay of 2 hours on the first and a delay of 4 hours on the second. This worked as intended until I did a big layout change, and now for some reason the ‘second’ break is happening at 4 hours in and the ‘first’ one is happening at 6 hours in. Is there no way to force the order? My other thought was that they operate in parallel, but since only one of the delays has the green dot, that doesn’t seem to be the case either.

I can of course do an if statement with variables and have it switch the delay amount depending on that, but I would like to understand the way the tabs in process executor work.

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I’m not sure I understood everything.
If you have several routines in your process without having defined any requirements, then they should be executed sequentially. To quote the Help File:

Process executor executes only one process routine at a time. Process routines are executed sequentially from left to right, if no requirements are filled.

What you could do is add a requirement to force the order as you said. There are two Requirements Statements. Here you could use the Property Condition Statement.
I made an example using the Analog Clock (from the Misc file in the eCat) to get the simulation time. You can then ask in your Property Condition, if the simulation time matches the break time:

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BreakTime with PropertyCondition.vcmx (6.2 MB)

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This helps. I think there might be some kind of weirdness with the order in my model. Is there a way to reorder the tabs once they are made?