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Sorry I found it now as I upgraded to the latest version. It looks like I have to add each activity one by one and select each pair of day (Mon-Tue, Tue-Wed etc.) Is that correct? That is a lot of constraints as I actually want all activities to avoid slots like this. Thanks

Thank you. I couldn't find this constraint. Is it under Time>>Activity? Will I have to apply it to each activity? In fact I would like it to be for all activities that have more than one session. Thank you

Hello,

I wonder if you could help me. Let say a subject has 2 sessions per week. If one session is the last lesson on one day, I want to avoid the other session being the first lesson the next day. There should be one or more of other lessons in between. Similar idea to min resting hrs. Is this possible?

Many thanks

Thank you very much. I'll try both.

Hello, we need to have at least 2 cover teachers on standby in every hr of the week. So I created activities with subject cover with no students, no room for all teachers. How can I ensure that fet put at least 2 cover lessons in every slot of the timetable?

Do I have to use activity occupies min time slot and click one hour by one hour, that is 40 hrs. Is there an easier way?

Many thanks

Thank you very much. I'll try that. It sounds correct so thanks again.

Hello,

I couldn't work out what constraints or a combination of constraints I can use here. A day is from 9-5 but a teacher will finish at 1 on one day and finish at 2 on one day. These can happen any days of the week. How can I set this so it gives fet the maximum flexibility when timetabling.

Many thanks

Do I have to perform this below in order to get the fet2xlsx.exe? I don't have Linux, is there any other way? Many thanks

Command line (Linux)
First make the program executable, then

./fet2xlsx path/to/test1_data_and_timetable.fet

Hi,

Thank you both for your time and effort. The main reason for us to have excel timetable is for other people who use the timetable for other purposes, and they work in excel mainly. I'll try fet2xlxs. Thank you very much.

Thank you both. Sorry it's been a long time. I finally have the timetable and have time to focus on converting it to excel. The first screenshot is the correct timetable. If we look at the two lessons with the arrow, M-FCN and M-FCE are students, FC305 and FC306 are subject.

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Once I used FETtoExcelExporter I get this for student M-FCE and M-FCN. You will see that the lesson FC306 only shows on student M-FCE (as it's the first student listed in that lesson) but not on student M-FCN (who is listed as the second set of student on that lesson). The same for lesson FC305 which only shows on student M-FCN but not on student M-FCE.

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I hope that makes sense. I'd appreciate any help. Thank you very much.

I'm following as would like to do the same.

Hello,

I'm not sure if this is the right place. I have tried FET to Excel and found that if the class has more than 1 group of students, only the first group is converted. For example,

Lesson 1 has teacher A and students Y1A and Y1B

In the excel of the teacher, it only shows student Y1A
The excel of student Y1A is correct, but the excel of student Y1B doesn't show this lesson at all.

I wonder if there is anything I can do to fix this.
Thank you very much.

Thank you for the suggestion. I'll try. Thanks again.

Hello,

I come across another constraint that I couldn't work out how to set it in fet. I set max hrs daily for a student set to be 6 hrs. We get the timetable where students have 2 or 3 days of 6 hrs, and very little for the rest of the week. What we would like is students only have 6 hrs for a maximum one day per week as it's too tiring for them. Do I have to use min hrs daily =4 for example, so the lessons are distributed. Or is there a way to limit the max hrs constraint to 1 day, where fet is more free to put the rest anywhere without min hrs daily.

Thank you very much

Got it. Thank you.