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FET Support (English) => Get Help on Your Input File => Topic started by: ngocanhcdn on August 11, 2013, 04:14:35 AM

Title: Can we merge 02 FET time schedule use the import/export funcion?
Post by: ngocanhcdn on August 11, 2013, 04:14:35 AM
HI everybody 1
i make 1 time schedule for Morning and Afternoon time of learning. but it's take very long time for FET to running so i decided to div it into 02 schedule. in basic, it have same teachers, same bulding, same subject. the differents are some of them study on the morning time and afternoon time foe the last.

i make the time schedule for both of them, lock it and now i would like to join 02 locked time schedule into 1.

Is it possible? or How? :D

Thanks a lots ...

Your guys are ROCK when making and maintan the FET. We love it !
Title: Re: Can we merge 02 FET time schedule use the import/export funcion?
Post by: Volker Dirr on August 12, 2013, 10:44:42 AM
hmmm... i fear there is no easy way to merge them, because the activity ids might be the same.

so i fear you can only safe the morning or afternoon lessons and you need to "enter" the others again.

maybe do this:
1. open your file with the afternoon lessons. export to csv. (you need this later again.)

2. open the timetable with your morning activities.
modify "hours per day" so that you also have afternoon hours.

3. this step 3 is only needed if you want to modify "morning" activities later:
add a new activity tag. maybe "m" like morning.
tag all activities with this tag.
add a constraint that activities with this tag are only allowed in the morning.


since you used the "locked" result fet file, your morning timetable is fixed at this time, but of course you can still unlock it.

4. edit the csv file with the activities with an editor.
add an activity tag. maybe "a" like afternoon. (just search and replace, this is done very quick.)
import this data to the modified morning timetable (see step 3).
add constraint that "a" is only allowed in the afternoon.

so you have the  now both in a single timetable, but the afternoon activities are not generated.

so you have the choice now:
a) set to each activity an constraint that fix them at the needed time (you can check your old result for this.)
or better
b) recalculate it again (this shouldn't take much more them then in a seperated file, because the morning lessons are already fixed.)
Title: Re: Can we merge 02 FET time schedule use the import/export funcion?
Post by: ngocanhcdn on August 16, 2013, 07:09:50 PM
Hi Volker Dirr !

Many thanks for your reply :D.. you and the FET team are the best !

I learn for better using the FET and will be back with some good results :D

Wish you all the bests !