[Task Sequence Conditional Condition]

I have an instance in which I am using task sequences and I need to turn "auto cancel trigger" to none.  There is a task that is dependent on whether or not the previous task actually occurred so I was going to add a conditional statement to the table.  How can I go about writing an expression to check whether the previous task (also a predecessor) actually got executed or cancelled?  Is there a nested expression I can take advantage of?  

[Concatenating Reference States and Strings]

I think the title is pretty straight forward, but is there any way to utilize a reference state to then concatenate onto a string?  I have a large number of states I'm tracking and they're all a function of the EntityType itself.  So for the sake of efficiency I was hoping I could somehow take advantage of the reference but so for no dice considering they're 2 completely different states.  Any tips/tricks I'm just not thinking of?

[Specific Server Allocation]

Just curious if there's an easier way to go about doing this... Long story short if I am representing multiple physical positions within capacity of a server and I create my own Gantt outside Simio, it's important for me to know WHICH resource (in this case which one of the servers) is utilized by each entity.  I was trying to utilize Entity.Location.Parent.Server.Processing.Contents.IndexOfItem( Entity ) and assigning it to a state on the entity and then ultimately writing to an output table.  However, this doesn't seem to be working accurately.  It may be a timing issue on when this step is called, but is there a default function I'm just not aware of that could be of assistance?

[Property/State Import]

Actually I want to include input parameters in there as well....  Thought about writing some process logic to read through a table on run initialized, but I can't use a state for the rows to specifically look at for the starting/ending index for table value input parameters. 

[Property/State Import]

Is there any way to import a list of properties from excel?  What if I have a model with a predetermined list of variables that rather than manually creating them one by one, I could simply import from excel?

[Timers]

Probably a stupid question, but doesn't the enabled just enable the start and not necessarily fire an event to START or STOP the timer? 

[Timers]

Is there a way to start/stop timers on a specific entity without creating a bunch of different events?  The potential problem I see is that the reset timer event is general and would require a bunch of individual events. 

[Search]

Any quick syntax I can use in a search step to have the match condition for the entity to NOT be itself?

[Move based on specific date time]

I can't seem to view this file as it was created in a later version and some of the functionality differs.

Thanks for your help. I'll see if there are any simbits on gates

[Move based on specific date time]

So this may be an easy answered question, but I'm at a roadblock. I want to have an entity wait in a server until a specific date and time. Once that date and time is reached within the model run, I need it to fire and move to the next server. This would be easy if it were one entity, but essentially a batch all arrives at different times and then needs to wait until that date/time to ALL move at the same time into a combiner. Any help would be greatly appreciated.