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It is a good suggestion, but maybe in the future.

OK, I also added this in the TODO. Please forgive me that I cannot do all the suggestions right away, but ... :-)

This is a good suggestion, I added in the TODO.

Until it may be solved, you could enter "Activity planning" and click "Pseudo-activities". This will list the activities without teachers and/or students sets.

I also wrote down this suggestion.

OK, deactivating students sets/teachers/constraints will be added in the TODO. The bad thing is that it was not thought of this from the beginning, and now it is critical to change.

Import of timetable is not possible (for now).

The only thing you can do is to generate a .fet file, with activities locked by constraints "an activity has a preferred starting time".

Hi

Yes, I built FET from source, so making a change wouldn't be a problem. I'd be grateful for a hint as to where to go to add it the label. I'll post diffs back afterwards.

I've completed the trials and FET will save two weeks work this summer. Thanks for a great and easy to use application!

src/engine/timetableexport.cpp.

Line 3990 and many others (maybe other 31 places below).

Test if j==certainHourYourWriteHere and k==certainDayYouWriteHere.

Modify the writeBreakSlot function, maybe.

maybe you can just use activities with subject "break" or "lunch", of course add all years (maybe also teachers, depending on your dataset). (be carefull with gaps, min hours and max hours constraints if you do it that way).

Too unneeded difficulty added this way.

There is no direct way to do what you want.

I have a suggestion: you could name the hours "Break" and "Lunch" (morning break and lunch break). In the final timetable there will appear these hours' names and an -X-. Why is -X- undesirable for you? Everybody understands it is a break.

I'll add your suggestion in the TODO.

Can you compile FET from sources? Do you know a bit of C++ programming? Then I could tell you what to do to change FET to work as you need.

Maybe Volker has other ideas to make what you need, simpler.

I might be on a trip this weekend, I am not sure I'll be able to answer until Sunday evening.

I will do my part and add it, if it is ready. For the moment, it depends on Volker, he may have some reasons not to incorporate it (yet).

Edited to add: I would prefer to add it into the Timetable menu, a new submenu: Print.

Thank you for your answer.

I am trying to re-introduce the Export to iCalendar functionality from fet-4.2.8 into the new fet-5.12.2 version, but I'm experiencing some dificulties.

For instance, in file timetableexporticalstudentsform.h
it is included timetableexporticalstudentsform_template.h that I cannot find in the fet-4.2.8 distribution.

Am I missing something?

Many thanks

timetableexporticalstudentsform_template.h is automatically generated by qmake from timetableexporticalstudentsform_template.ui. You also might want to convert this timetableexporticalstudentsform_template.ui from Qt 3 to Qt 4.

The task you are trying to do might be too difficult. I advise you to do a separate module, using the xml timetables obtained with FET.

The reasons why I removed the iCal export from FET was that I thought nobody used this format. Also, the iCal export in FET 4 was not perfect, you may want firstly to use FET 4 on a simple file to see how this export works.

Hi
I was busy in the last weeks but I'm working on iCalc format.

Using the timetableexport I make some iCal calendars, but I was trying to separate each teacher from the other teachers (and the same thing for students and rooms)

When you make a new calendar, and view the timetable, you can select one teacher and then you only see the timetable corresponding to that teacher.

It could be possible to use that table to export to an iCal format? adding some button there to export?

How this table is generated?

Thanks.

Method 1: you could save in multiple files the calendar for each teacher (using what you worked so far, from timetableexport.cpp).

Method 2: you can add a button in timetable view form and export the timetable of current teacher in iCal format.

Which one do you prefer? I would prefer 1.

Adding a button is easy if you worked a bit with Qt. You will need old Qt-3.3.x to open the timetableviewteachersform_template.ui, add a button and make a slot for it and then write the C++ code (no more Qt). I could try to do that for you, if you cannot do it.

Qt-3.3.x is not available freely for Windows (Qt-4 is).

I'm back.

Yes, you can see the old ical export in FET-4.2.8. I removed it in FET-5 because I thought nobody used that.

I think you can write an ical export easily, by following the code from timetableexport.cpp.

Please let me know if you have any problems and I'll answer.

Hi,

I would be very pleased, if in a future version it would be possible to specify the number of students for an activity as an extra column in the activities.csv.

Rationale: I mainly use FET for planning examinations. In this setting the number of calculated participants and actual participants differs significantly, because students have to repeat examinations or do not register for  examinations.

Many thanks in advance!

Regards,

Gert Veltink

I added this request in the TODO. It depends on Volker, as I don't know how to modify the import/export routines.

The problem is that the import for activities is already a big dialog and there is not enough space to add other field(s).

Yes, but it it usefull to import the number of students that way? Normaly you have less students then activities. So it is less work to import the number of students by the students.csv then modifing each activity.

gjveltink wants a different number of students than the computed students.

Example: students S1 (10 students), activities A1 (with students S1), A2 (with students S1), A1 has 5 students (specified), A2 has 15 students (specified).