Hi!
First, I would like to say that I am a complete beginner both with FET and with making a timetable in general. I've been tasked with making the timetable for our school and was wondering if FET would be able to help with that.
The school has a be-weekly timetable (so I'll somehow have to use one of the workarounds) but the teachers also have classes in one of the local hospitals (about ~45 minutes transfer time). I see I can define different buildings but the problem is that at the hospital the start and end times for each period are different (25min + 5min break as opposed to 45min and 5min break in the school).
How do I manage that?
Thank you. I must say that I am quite overwhelmed with the magnitude of this task and I hope someone here can help!
Hello!
Maybe 30 minutes "hour" for hospital and 50 minutes "hour" for school, so a FET "hour" would be 10 minutes, and change the activities' duration (but each activity needs a fixed duration). Can you neglect the 5 minutes break?
Thanks for the extremely fast reply!
Ok, I think I know what you are getting at but I am so new to all this that I don't know if would that work.
So, hospital activities would have 3-'hour' duration, and at school 5-'hour' durations? The same activity could still be scheduled at two consecutive slots?
We also have two 15min breaks (breakfast/dinner), luckily outside the allocated hospital time so I am guessing that is not a problem?
Thanks once again!
I have thought of one other possible problem.
If we have hours defined like this:
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13
| 1.hour| | 2.hour| ...
what's stopping FET to schedule one activity at 3-7, not starting at '1' or '6'?
Quote from: dsvilko on August 13, 2016, 06:12:08 PM
So, hospital activities would have 3-'hour' duration, and at school 5-'hour' durations? The same activity could still be scheduled at two consecutive slots?
We also have two 15min breaks (breakfast/dinner), luckily outside the allocated hospital time so I am guessing that is not a problem?
Each activity needs to have an exact duration and it will span across more FET hours.
Quote from: dsvilko on August 13, 2016, 06:28:28 PM
I have thought of one other possible problem.
If we have hours defined like this:
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13
| 1.hour| | 2.hour| ...
what's stopping FET to schedule one activity at 3-7, not starting at '1' or '6'?
You can add a constraint activities preferred starting times, for all activities.
Ok, thank you. As this is my first time using FET, I'll first try to build only the school timetable, ignoring the hospital for now. Once I get more comfortable with the terminology and the interface, I'll try to implement your idea.
Hi Liviu!
I have a similar situation and I am new to your software. I apologize if my question has already been answered, but I didn't find it.
In our school we have decided that three group of classes (B,E,F - I mean 1B,2B,3B,1E,2E,3E,1F,2F,3F) will start at 07.55, while the remaining four (A,C,D,G) will start at 08.05.
It is pretty sure that some Teachers are going to be part of Classes B and D for example. In this scenario, how could I solve the different starting time to properly instruct the software?
Thank you for taking time to reply!
Hello, spike,
I think you could solve this problem with making a real-life hour = 6 FET hours, and a FET hour = 10 real-life minutes. The activities will have duration 6 or 5.
If you have last years' timetables or other documents, you may send them (here or by email to me).
Thank you Liviu, for your reply!
As I am a newbie I do not understand your answer,
but I am attaching our timetable, so that I can better
explain what I meant when I said that some teachers
may be involved in course B, for example, and D with
different starting and ending periods.
Thank you in advance
You're welcome!
Maybe like in the attached file.
Thank you so much!
I will work on it