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FET Support (English) => Get Help => Topic started by: mohammad-k on August 18, 2016, 12:00:04 PM

Title: Available slots issue when adding same starting time constraint
Post by: mohammad-k on August 18, 2016, 12:00:04 PM
Hello,
First of all I have 40 available slots and I have courses with total periods equal to 41 periods.
Let me give an example to clarify my question:
1. Activity one with course name English (having 1 period).
2. Activity two with course name Assisted English (having 1 period).

I added a constraint same starting time to group the two above activities with one time slot; so the total must be 40 since i have grouped the periods with one slot.
But unfortunately what happened is that FET ٍshow up an error message (" You have only 40 free slots ") .
Knowing that FET must know that one activity was joined with another activity in same slot.

So now i can't generate my schedule and i need to apply same starting time constraint.

please tell me what should i do to fix my problem.

Thanks. 
Title: Re: Available slots issue when adding same starting time constraint
Post by: Bobby Wise on August 18, 2016, 04:18:55 PM
I may be wrong but I believe you can't have 2 subjects in the same slot/period.

You might be able to create a subject like English/Assisted English. If that's ok then it should work.
Title: Re: Available slots issue when adding same starting time constraint
Post by: Volker Dirr on August 20, 2016, 09:56:51 AM
Bobbys is nice/good; especially if you want to use that for fortnightly activities.

other variants to solve this problem are:
1.) use same starting time constraint and add a activity without students.

or

2.a.) use the automatic split year feature
2.b.) care manually about a better students structure