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Hi

We use the html form of timetable directly from FET, so it would be good if the date format could use the British locale of dd/mm/yy rather than mm/dd/yy.

Digging in the code reveals that the default locale has been changed to en_US from en_GB (a retrograde step in every imaginable dimension!) at some point in the past.

I changed the default in the source back to en_GB and nothing untoward happened. The date is displayed correctly now!

I'm happy to provide a en_GB translation if en_US has to be the default, but I can't see why it has to be in the code.

Best Wishes

Nick

Wow! exactly what i was looking for!

thank you

Hi Christian

thank you for the info, I'll give it a go.

nick

Hi

Is there a way of making very minor changes to a timetable after it has been generated without having to re-generate it?

I use FET to generate homework assignments as well as the usual timetable stuff. A homework has students, but no teacher and no room but is constrained to be on the same night as a lesson in the same subject.

FET does a good job, but occasionally teachers want to change the homework night for other reasons. It seems the only way i can do this is to edit about 42 individual html files! Is there an easier way?

Thanks

Nick

Hi

I want to develop a query function on our school intranet that will enable teachers and admins to locate where a student should be at any time.

I need to get info from the FET timetable that gives (ideally in CSV format so I cannot import it into mysql):

Group/Sub-Group, Day, Lesson, Subject, Teacher(s), Room

Can anyone suggest a way I can do this fairly easily? Is there some existing code I can hack?

Thanks

Nick

Hi

We're just going live with our first timetable generated using FET and it seems to have been accepted very well by my colleagues, so thank you for a great bit of software! It has replaced two weeks work with less than a day and a last minute change to staffing that would almost certainly added a day or two was dealt with in less than 20 minutes.

As usual though, there is a fly in the ointment: my head master says that the master timetable "must" look like the old one. The groups_time_horizontal layout is a very good start for this, but it "needs" to have colour-coded backgrounds for individual teachers. It would also be great if days could be split into separate pages for printing.

It would seem that css could come to the rescue. If teacher-specific classes were output then I could easily do the background bit. I think also that css can do paging?

Is this something that could be considered to be included in the main app or should i pursue developing a post-processing script to search and replace teachers with wrapped-up css versions?

Thanks for considering it thus far!

Nick

Hi

Yes, I built FET from source, so making a change wouldn't be a problem. I'd be grateful for a hint as to where to go to add it the label. I'll post diffs back afterwards.

I've completed the trials and FET will save two weeks work this summer. Thanks for a great and easy to use application!

In the Time tab, Break button, leading to the dialogue to set up break times... At the moment, I set up one break time constraint that has morning breaks and lunch breaks combined.

If I set up two (one for break and one for lunch) and I could attach a label that would be displayed in the unavailable slots in the finished timetable, such as 'Break' or 'Lunch', it would save me having to edit each Student, Teacher and Room timetable before they can be printed, etc. It's quite manual at the moment because '-X-' is used throughout and I can't do a global search and replace.

If I've missed something and there is a way, then I'm sorry to have wasted your time.

Hi

Thanks for your help. I will try what you suggest.

The second query is lots of LT and LS appeared on the timetable. I worked out this meant Locked Time and Locked Space, but how did I manage to lock these things? I don't remember doing anything different.

Thanks again

Nick

Hi

The attached timetable (which concludes in less than 2 secs on my computer, replacing two weeks work by hand!) is excellent.

I have two queries, which may be related. If I try to set a home room for student group 'Form II', FET will not begin to generate a timetable. It says:
Cannot generate timetable, because for activity with id==84 you have no allowed home room (from constraints students set home room(s) and teacher home room(s))

It does this for three activities only.

'Prep' means the same as homework - for the 'lessons' at the end of the day. The intention in scheduling is to have the prep done on a day when a lesson has taken place.

I am testing the scheduling of preps, which is why they only exist for Form II.

Thanks for a great application.

Nick

I would like to issue a text-based version of the base data - in particular I would like to give each teacher something like:

'AJ works on Monday and Tuesday; teaches RS to VIb, RS to VIa..'

That way, I can get the individual teachers to confirm I have set FET up correctly. I am now getting close to 30 teachers with many part-timers and increasing complexity of teaching allocations.

Is it possible to do this anywhere in FET at the moment?

Thanks

Nick

Is it possible to get a narrative report about the base data of a FET input file?

i would like to give each teacher a report that gives them details of the days I think they work, the groups/subjects they teach. That way, they can confirm I've implemented the requirements correctly.

Thanks

Nick