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Oh I see, thank you for the fast answer. Hopefully you'll get financial support, fet is amazing and I really appreciate the support!

Hello,

I have an issue and I can't find a way around it by myself, but maybe I'm missing something.
I have 5 lunch activities with preferred time slots for each student. One for each day of the week.

My issue is that I would like to use the ConstraintStudentsSetMinHoursDaily and that I don't have a way to ignore my lunch activities with this constraint. Meaning that if fet finds a timetable with a day off (which is allowed) the ConstraintStudentsSetMinHoursDaily will make it impossible because there will be the lunch activity no matter what. Indeed, if we have a day with only the 30min lunch activity for the student and the minHoursdaily constraint is set to 1 hours it won't be good..

One way to solve it would be to have a ConstraintStudentsSetMinHoursDaily with an activity_tag and i'd add an activity_tag to all my activities except the lunch ones.
If you understand my issue and know how I can accomplish that that would be amazing.

Thanks!

I was adding constraints activities preferred time slots for first and second week tag. I don't need identical two weeks so it should me good enough. Thank you

First of all, thank you very much ! I made all the changes and all the constraints are now working.

I now have another question : I made my generation over two weeks because I have some courses that happen once every two weeks.
My issue is that for the others it's now over two weeks too. For instance if a subject is taught 6h a week, which is 12h every two weeks. We can have a week with 0h and the other one with 12h which i don't want.

What would be the best approache to fix this?

Thanks again !

Okay it makes sense. In that case I may have an issue.
When I create subgroups to respect my needs the generation suddenly takes a very long time. (left it running for 15min), while it was taking just a few secs before. Do yu think it's normal?

Here is my input file, maybe you can spot something?

Hello,

I have another question. It's probably a really simple one but it's a bit confusing to me.

I have a group of students (BTS Diététique 2) that has some subjects in smaller groups. (Groupe 1, Groupe 2, Groupe 3).
So I don't want activities with BTS Diététique 2 to happen at the same time as the smaller groups. But I want the activities of the smaller groups to be able to happen at the same time.

Maybe a better question is : is it possible to have subgroups activities happening at the same time?

I hope it's clear enough..

Okay it makes sense. Thank you
Tho I'm still a bit confused. I have a subject that has to be taught for 6,5 hours a week. (13 half hour)
The max hour a day is 3. (so it has to be taught over 3 days). But it doesn't matter how long which class is. It can be for instance 2, 2, 2.5 or 3,2,1.5.
From what I understand I have to split the activity in 3 myself and tell how long which should last? or can FET do it? Because I'm editing the input file by hand.

Okay, I will try that. Thank you.

I have another question :
I can have a max daily hour for a subject. I saw that i should use an activity tag but I can't make it work. I am probably doing something wrong :

My tag :

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<Activity_Tags_List><Activity_Tag>
<Name>Max_Hour_Daily</Name>
</Activity_Tag></Activity_Tags_List>

My Activity :

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<Activity>
<Activity_Tag>Max_Hour_Daily</Activity_Tag>
<Id>4</Id>
<Teacher>BALLET Adeline</Teacher>
<Subject>Physiologie</Subject>
<Students>BTS Diététique</Students>
<Duration>13</Duration>
<Active>true</Active>
<Activity_Group_Id>0</Activity_Group_Id>
</Activity>

My Constraint :

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<ConstraintStudentsSetActivityTagMaxHoursDaily>
<Weight_Percentage>100</Weight_Percentage>
<Maximum_Hours_Daily>6</Maximum_Hours_Daily>
<Students>BTS Diététique</Students>
<Activity_Tag>Max_Hour_Daily</Activity_Tag>
<Active>true</Active>
<Comments></Comments>
</ConstraintStudentsSetActivityTagMaxHoursDaily>

The file seems okay, when I try to generate the timetable I get a warning about the activity tag and it then fails with the error "Please check the constraints related to the activity below, which might be impossible to schedule"

I tried to set the max hour to 24 and it doesn't change anything.
What am I doing wrong?

Thank you,

Okay thanks a lot for your fast answer! I think I should be okay with these files!

I now have another question, which may be off topic but is it possible to make a timetable over a year? For instance for next year starting in September and ending in July, with hollydays and everything?
I guess it's not how I works, but what would you recommend to get such a timetable as it's what I need to create?

And also would it be possible to have it fully automatic using a script executing commands lines on a server instead of the desktop UI? And if so is there a documentation about this?

Hi,

I have a MySQL database containing all my HighSchool data (teachers, students, classes etc...). I would like to export those data using PHP into an XML file readable by FET.
I may have missed the obvious as I never did this but is there somewhere a tutorial on how to do so? Or maybe at least a description of what the XML file structure should look like?

Thank you in advance,