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Title: Input data from different ways simultaneously
Post by: sasbland on November 11, 2024, 09:22:08 PM
Hello, we have about 800 activities to create in a short space of time so one person won't complete it in time. So we wonder if it's possible that we copy the original fet file that already has teachers students, subjects into multiple copies, and have a few people creating different activities in each fet file. Is there a way we can combine the activities created from multiple files into one file? Maybe export and then import or something. I'm thinking this will cause problems with activity ID, but maybe there is a way round it.

Many thanks
Title: Re: Input data from different ways simultaneously
Post by: Liviu Lalescu on November 11, 2024, 09:49:17 PM
Hello,

You could try to:

1) Export from n users to n files as CSV, and combine the CSV files with simple copy/paste. The CSV files do not include activities IDs, but also lack the constraints. Then import in the final file the whole CSV file.

or

2) This one is tricky: have n fet files, each user out of the n will work on one, but you need the IDs of the activities to be not overlapping. Each of the n users will have n*1000 first activity ID. You can let each user input a single activity, then modify for user n with a text editor the fet file, the ID, make it n*1000 (for instance 5000 for the 5th user). Then the users will input their activities, then you need to combine the n fet files with an intelligent/very tricky copy/paste - maybe only the <Activities_List> and <Time_Constraints_List> and <Space_Constraints_List> sections.
Title: Re: Input data from different ways simultaneously
Post by: sasbland on November 13, 2024, 08:52:53 PM
Thank you. Option 1 seems straight forward so will do that. Thanks again.