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Thank you, once again! Activities consecutive constraint seems like it could be what I am looking for. I am surprised that nobody had a similar request. When you setup a (possibly large) set of experiments it's very inconvenient to have to set it up and remove it twice in the same day.

Hi!
I'm still making my first steps with FET and testing the timetable generation with only one teacher and his constraints. The generated timetable has a very undesirable sequence of classes for one day (7a,8a,7b,8b). It's extremely inconvenient for teachers to mix the years in this way, especially if there are experiments that have to be set up.
Is there a way to force the same year students to be consecutive, and not mixed?
Thanks!

Ok, thank you. As this is my first time using FET, I'll first try to build only the school timetable, ignoring the hospital for now. Once I get more comfortable with the terminology and the interface, I'll try to implement your idea.

I have thought of one other possible problem.
If we have hours defined like this:

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1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13
| 1.hour| | 2.hour| ...

what's stopping FET to schedule one activity at 3-7, not starting at '1' or '6'?

Thanks for the extremely fast reply!
Ok, I think I know what you are getting at but I am so new to all this that I don't know if would that work.
So, hospital activities would have 3-'hour' duration, and at school 5-'hour' durations? The same activity could still be scheduled at two consecutive slots?
We also have two 15min breaks (breakfast/dinner), luckily outside the allocated hospital time so I am guessing that is not a problem?
Thanks once again!

Hi!
First, I would like to say that I am a complete beginner both with FET and with making a timetable in general. I've been tasked with making the timetable for our school and was wondering if FET would be able to help with that.
The school has a be-weekly timetable (so I'll somehow have to use one of the workarounds) but the teachers also have classes in one of the local hospitals (about ~45 minutes  transfer time). I see I can define different buildings but the problem is that at the hospital the start and end times for each period are different (25min + 5min break as opposed to 45min and 5min break in the school).
How do I manage that?
Thank you. I must say that I am quite overwhelmed with the magnitude of this task and I hope someone here can help!