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Uups - that I did oversee. But that could be the perfect import: If the weight is below 100%, than fill the "a set of activities has a set of preferred time slots" with only this teacher selected and the given weight?

Hi,
I would maybe propose more of a table style with each lesson of the day as a column and each day a row. Best solution could than be the weight of each lesson in this "table" - putting a weight of 0 for "teacher is available". So:

teacher name, day, weight_1st_lesson, weight_2nd_lesson, ..., comments
"Tom", "Monday", 100, 100, 0, 0, 90, 90, 0, 0, ..., comments
"Tom", "Tuesday", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ..., comments
"Tom", "Wednesday", 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, ..., comments
"Tom", ...

Advantages:
The "table style" should be easy to view/understand/edit and allows for different weights throughout the week (which allows variations of "teacher is available", "teacher is truly 100% not available Monday 1st/2nd" and "teacher whishes rather not to be available Monday 5th/6th, but could be as it is only a wish").
The number of columns is fixed and can be checked for matching the number of lessons a day before importing, the number of rows for a teacher can be checked for matching the number of days.
Comments can be added/imported/exported, for example for writing the date the restriction was put - this way maybe a check could be made for existing not available times before/while importing (i.e. "do you really want to import times for "Tom"? There are times with comments "01.04.2026" in this file.")
Disadvantages:
Easy viewing of the individual weights of each lesson does not equal easy collecting into a restriction of the same weight for each teacher. :-(

Would it maybe be possible to also export/import the other ("easier") restrictions of each teacher (max days per week, min days per week, a teacher does not work two consecutive days, ..., min resting hours for a teacher) as well? Those I also collect from my teachers before starting to build a timetable.
That could/would just be
teacher name, weight, name of restriction, value of restriction

Thanks a lot to all of you for working/thinking/living FET!

Regards,

Steffen

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