Hi!
I'm looking for software to create the on call schedule for a bunch of doctors on a small clinic.
Only one doctor works per day.
- 10-15 persons available depending on vacations and such.
- 28-31 days per month have to be filled.
- At least 1 day between shifts.
- preferential ( would prefer to work Tuesdays and Fridays but not Sundays)
- Limits like never more than 3 shifts per 7 days.
- Being able to mark some days as unavailable (on vacation) for a person.
I feel that FET is maybe not the program I need since it seems to be more towards creating schedules for schools. And much more complicated scheduling.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks in advance
/LinuxSam
QuoteHi!
I'm looking for software to create the on call schedule for a bunch of doctors on a small clinic.
Only one doctor works per day.
This is simple. Just define a number of days per week (week means month), each having 1 hour.
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- 10-15 persons available depending on vacations and such.
That is all right. There are 10-15 teachers. But in FET, you need to specify the exact activities. In FET -> each activity will have a teacher and will be split into x subactivities per week. In your notation, you need to decide how many days will have each doctor in a month. A normal notation would be: activity A1 (T1) - split into 3 per week, and so on. You cannot let FET choose how many activities per week will have each teacher.
Each activity will have no students. Any subject can be chosen.
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- 28-31 days per month have to be filled.
If your number of days is >28, you need to increase the maximum number of days per week to 31 (variable MAX_DAYS_PER_WEEK in timetable_defs.h)
Also, you'll need to modify manually the .fet file to make the number of days per week 29 (or 30 or 31) and name them. This is easy.
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- At least 1 day between shifts.
Min days between activities, added automatically when adding split activities. You need to add minimum distance = 2 days, 100%. You could also try to add minimum distance = 3 and FET will ask about adding also a min days = 2
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- preferential ( would prefer to work Tuesdays and Fridays but not Sundays)
Probably constraint activity(ies) preferred starting time(s), with different weights
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- Limits like never more than 3 shifts per 7 days.
This is tricky. Maybe you could increase the constraints min days between activities (add for instance min days 4 or more, weight 50%-99.75%). We'll talk about that if all other points are solved.
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- Being able to mark some days as unavailable (on vacation) for a person.
Easy, constraint teacher not available.
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I feel that FET is maybe not the program I need since it seems to be more towards creating schedules for schools. And much more complicated scheduling.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks in advance
/LinuxSam
Yes, your problem is very simple. I hope FET can solve it. Please let me know.
You can only apply FET if you know the exact number of days each doctor will have on a month.
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- 10-15 persons available depending on vacations and such.
That is all right. There are 10-15 teachers. But in FET, you need to specify the exact activities. In FET -> each activity will have a teacher and will be split into x subactivities per week. In your notation, you need to decide how many days will have each doctor in a month. A normal notation would be: activity A1 (T1) - split into 3 per week, and so on. You cannot let FET choose how many activities per week will have each teacher.
Each activity will have no students. Any subject can be chosen.
I think he also need a room or a year, because he wrote:
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Only one doctor works per day.
So he can add a year "patient".
and all activities get this year, so only one doctor will work per day.
or:
Variant 2:
he add a room, a subject and a constraint subject preferd room.
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- preferential ( would prefer to work Tuesdays and Fridays but not Sundays)
Probably constraint activity(ies) preferred starting time(s), with different weights
and/or constraint teacher not available.
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So he can add a year "patient".
and all activities get this year, so only one doctor will work per day.
or:
Variant 2:
he add a room, a subject and a constraint subject preferd room.
Of course, I forgot, thank you for reminding me this! Sorry for my omission.
The problem is I don't want to specify exactly how many shifts each person should work... I would like to specify 2-4 or 3-5 or something like that... if a person is on vacation of course he (or she) would get less shifts.
/LinuxSam
QuoteThe problem is I don't want to specify exactly how many shifts each person should work... I would like to specify 2-4 or 3-5 or something like that... if a person is on vacation of course he (or she) would get less shifts.
/LinuxSam
For the moment, FET has no such features.
I don't know how to solve your problem, I have no experience with such situations.
Thanks for trying.
/LinuxSam
maybe also check this post:
http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?topic=1542.msg8359