Hi,
I'm really impressed with FET - I'm sure we're going to be making use of it.
I was wondering if it would be possible to implement a constraint similar to the "Max hours continuously with an activity tag for all teachers", but for subject rather than activity tag. In my establishment each teacher is qualified to teach 3 different subjects, and it would be preferable to break things up so they're not teaching the same subject for lots of lessons in a row.
Many thanks,
Chris
I think there is no need for a new constraint, because tags are more flexible than subjects. You can have more tags for an activity.
A simple solution is to define a tag in parallel with each subject (eg., for subject S1 -> add activity tag AT1) and for activities with S1, add also AT1.
It does not matter if the activity has more tags, all constraints will be respected.
Ok, that works. Thanks.
A related idea: we have situations where a group of students has the same teacher for two (or occasionally three) subjects. Is there a way of limiting the number of lessons per day for a given teacher/student combination?
Thanks, Chris
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A related idea: we have situations where a group of students has the same teacher for two (or occasionally three) subjects. Is there a way of limiting the number of lessons per day for a given teacher/student combination?
The activity tags will also help here :-) (enable the constraints activity tag max hours daily, without worrying about the warning).
Ok, I think I understand - so you suggest having a teacher activity tag as well for each activity, in order to then use the activity tag constraints for this case as well?
Yes.