assigning rooms

[RRadu]

Dear all,

I am new to FED and I am learning to use it. I am very, very happy I found it!

For now, I have introduced 2 rooms (350 places and 36 places), one course (for a 350 students) and three seminars (for 25 students each), with different professors and no contains. I have tried to generate a schedule, to see how it works.

The program generates a schedule for each subgroups and for the whole year, but does not place neither course nor seminar in a room. What should I do?

Thank you!

[Volker Dirr]

You need to set room constraints. See FET -> Data -> Space constraints

[RRadu]

Thank you for the reply!

I entered now the space contrains menu and added some unavailable time, and no it says:

Space constraint
Room not available
Weight (percentage)=100%
Room=R3
Not available at:
sambata 08:00;...

and does not assign the room to a course. How can I make the room available?

[Volker Dirr]

You need to use Room/Space constraints. FET won't assign rooms without those constraints.
Please maybe also read this: (I explain a few of that constraints there)
http://www.timetabling.de/manual/FET-manual.en.html#id_46

[Liviu Lalescu]

Thank you for the reply!

I entered now the space contrains menu and added some unavailable time, and no it says:

Space constraint
Room not available
Weight (percentage)=100%
Room=R3
Not available at:
sambata 08:00;...

and does not assign the room to a course. How can I make the room available?

To make the room R3 available at sambata 08:00, remove or edit this not available space constraint.

To ensure that an activity takes place in a special room, use preferred room(s) or home room(s) constraints - like Volker said.

You have many examples, like the file Pedagogic High-School Tg. Mures, 2007-2008_sem1-d.fet (from Romania examples), or German secondary school 1, german_subact_constraints.fet. See the space constraints there.

[RRadu]

Thank you!