Hi there,
and thank you very much for this tool - it fits quite good in my (very special) planning situation at a small university department:
I have to schedule ~100 courses each semester with some difficult constraints - mainly rooms and teacher not available and teachers not being flexible
With FET I generate a "starting timetable" which aims at being as perfect as possible. But this "starting timetable" can't adapt to the individual egos of the teacher (I don't have the time to place each individual whishes in FET) - so the "starting timetable" gets quite a number of changes, switching rooms for a lesson or switching timeslots. This switching could be done "old school" on a board.
FET viewer looks very suitable for this task - but changing a room requires some/many clicks...
Would it be possible to switch between different "master views" for editing a timetable?
Now, the master view shows all cards on a "small plan" with only the time slots. For my setting, it would be perfect to have a view of all the rooms on the left axis (and each day with its lessons/times on the top bar). That way, the plan for each room is displayed at once and a free or alternative room for each card can be easily identified. And now dragging and dropping a card can change the room very easy while keeping the day/time. And dragging/dropping the card to a different day/time or moving it to the unplanned activities should also be easy?
A view like this (possibly not also this option "show/edit all the room plans on one screen" but also "show/edit all the teacher plans on one screen" & "show/edit all the class plans on one screen") would make many "old school planners" happy who have planning by moving cards on a big board in their heads...
Final idea: If a "double or triple" lesson exist, where the same card shows again without a break in between: Would it be possible to merge those cards into one of the combined size?
If those ideas would be possible, it would save hours of my time - those I could invest to help with a German translation
Thanks again and regards,
Steffen
and thank you very much for this tool - it fits quite good in my (very special) planning situation at a small university department:
I have to schedule ~100 courses each semester with some difficult constraints - mainly rooms and teacher not available and teachers not being flexible
With FET I generate a "starting timetable" which aims at being as perfect as possible. But this "starting timetable" can't adapt to the individual egos of the teacher (I don't have the time to place each individual whishes in FET) - so the "starting timetable" gets quite a number of changes, switching rooms for a lesson or switching timeslots. This switching could be done "old school" on a board.
FET viewer looks very suitable for this task - but changing a room requires some/many clicks...
Would it be possible to switch between different "master views" for editing a timetable?
Now, the master view shows all cards on a "small plan" with only the time slots. For my setting, it would be perfect to have a view of all the rooms on the left axis (and each day with its lessons/times on the top bar). That way, the plan for each room is displayed at once and a free or alternative room for each card can be easily identified. And now dragging and dropping a card can change the room very easy while keeping the day/time. And dragging/dropping the card to a different day/time or moving it to the unplanned activities should also be easy?
A view like this (possibly not also this option "show/edit all the room plans on one screen" but also "show/edit all the teacher plans on one screen" & "show/edit all the class plans on one screen") would make many "old school planners" happy who have planning by moving cards on a big board in their heads...
Final idea: If a "double or triple" lesson exist, where the same card shows again without a break in between: Would it be possible to merge those cards into one of the combined size?
If those ideas would be possible, it would save hours of my time - those I could invest to help with a German translation
Thanks again and regards,
Steffen