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Hello Liviu, thanks for your great work!

It works as expected, thank you very much!

Hello Liviu,

a Linux version would be fine for me as well ...

Hello Liviu,

that's a good idea and very helpful!

Let me give you a brief background: In our organization, several departments schedule exam dates using FET. The data are collected through a web application (including, among other things, the availability of the examiners), and from this a FET file is generated. The planners in the departments download this file and (hopefully) generate a solution themselves with FET. The "best" solution is then supposed to be uploaded back to the web application by the planners, so that the exam schedule (including an iCal/ICS export) can be made available. For this, the best solution file (either activities.xml or data_and_timetable.fet) needs to be located easily.

This could be done via a text file as you suggested, but it would be even simpler if there were a predefined location for the best solution. For example, it could be a dedicated folder, or the generated directories could be marked accordingly (e.g., instead of "123" better "best_123"), since there might be several equally good solutions.

I hope my request is reasonably clear.

Best regards,
  Frank

How quickly a week goes by   ... The new version works, thank you very much! The German interface is also displayed correctly for me.

It works, thank you! What was changed during compilation?

If it helps: I use MacOS Tahoe 26.4 (Apple M4) ...

Thank you, Darren, for the quick response and the new version! Unfortunately, I still have the same problem with it. What could be causing this?

Best regards,
  Frank

Hi,

we use FET at our university to generate exam timetables that are optimized for each individual student. Several soft constraints are taken into account, for example avoiding exams on Saturdays. In order to obtain the best possible schedule, a very large number of timetables are generated (using multiple threads). It would be nice if, after the planning finishes or is aborted, FET automatically saves the best timetable (according to the soft‑constraint scores) at a predefined location. The directory where report.txt is written would be a natural place for this.

At the moment I read the report.txt file and, based on its entries, manually pick the best solution. It would be convenient if FET could store the best solution itself at a predefined location, instead of having to determine it programmatically. Perhaps this is a feature that could be implemented. Or is there another simple way to achieve this that we could use? Thank you for your feedback!

Greetings,
  Frank

Hi,

I have a problem with the current FET version (7.8.4). When I launch it on macOS, I get the following error message: "'fet' is damaged and can't be opened. It is recommended that you move the object to the Trash." (This is a translation from German, so the original (English) message may be phrased slightly differently). I had no issues with earlier versions (e.g., 7.7.7 still works for me), and I am familiar with the security‑settings on macOS. What could be causing this, and how can the error be resolved? Thanks for any hints!

Greetings,
  Frank