MATLAB: How is the FIND_SYSTEM used to find “IF Action Subsystem” in Simulink 8.2 (R2013b)

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I would like to find all "IF Action Subsystem" by using FIND_SYSTEM and assign subsystem values.

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The ability to query a subsystem directly to see if it is an If-Action-, Triggered-, Enabled-, or Function-call subsystem is not available in Simulink.

As a workaround query the subsystem to see if it contains an action port with the following commands:

 ports = get_param(subsystem,'PortHandles');
 conditional = ~isempty(ports.Enable) || ~isempty(ports.Trigger) || ~isempty(ports.Ifaction);

For instance, you can find and assign values to If-Action subsystem with the following commands:

 b=find_system(gcs,'LookUnderMasks','all','BlockType','SubSystem'); 
 for j=1:numel(b) 
     ports = get_param(b{j},'PortHandles'); 
     if (~isempty(ports.Ifaction))
        ...
     end
 end

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Let's say your whole model is executed at every 0.1s. At every 0.1 second, the condition is checked and the "If-action" subsystem is executed or not executed. So the execution of the subsystem is asynchronous or triggered. I can't think of a scenerio where inside the subsystem, a rate transition is meaningful, although your error message says there might be such a case.

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Added below:

Now I think I might understand such a case indicated in the error message. When the "If-action" subsystem is executed, all its inputs must be available. The "If-action" subsystem is only executed at most once per step size, so there is no need to do rate transition inside. However, if one of its input is asynchronous or triggered which means it is not available at the time when the "If-action" subsystem is executed, then you might need to do rate transition inside (for the purpose of holding last available value). Still, even in that case, I think it is possible or better to do the rate transition outside.

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