I tried tu use spreading evenly activities over the week for a quite simple problem: 2 years, each year has two classes, each class of year 1 has 9 activities of duration 12 hours, each class of year 2 has 11 activities of duration 14 hours. There are 7 working hours per day and 4 rooms. Activities in resulting timetable are spread from 1 to 5 hours per day. It's not evenly at all. How to make it more evenly?
Spreading relates to activities in the same larger component (split activities). Are your activities like that?
Also, maybe activity tag max hours daily may help you.
Maybe, I misunderstood what exactly means "evenly" in this case. I think it would be useful to set the constraint "spread evenly all activities for ..." without regard how many there are. Surely, it is possible to manipulate max/min hours daily to achieve the same but in this case you must regard total weekly hours for any class/group/teacher and judge what would mean "evenly".
Anyway thanks for reply.
QuoteMaybe, I misunderstood what exactly means "evenly" in this case. I think it would be useful to set the constraint "spread evenly all activities for ..." without regard how many there are. Surely, it is possible to manipulate max/min hours daily to achieve the same but in this case you must regard total weekly hours for any class/group/teacher and judge what would mean "evenly".
Anyway thanks for reply.
Activity tag max hours daily for teachers/students. Add an activity tag for a set of activities, like "Difficult", and say that teachers/students should have maximum 3 "Difficult" activities per day.
You can add more activity tags for an activity.