Groupings

[Sue Moran]

Cancelled help request. I will no doubt be back!

[Volker Dirr]

sorry, but i don't understand this topic.

[Sue Moran]

I posted a questions then worked the answer so removed it.

Now I have another!

I have split Year 7 into subgroups

A  B
French German Chinese
Maths H maths S

This all worked out great. Now the structure has changed. Everyone in 7A does German which allows 7A to do something else when 7B splits to do Fre/Germ/Chin. I don't know how to split the new situation.

Any suggestions?

thanks for your time

[Volker Dirr]

impossible if 7B splits into Fre/Germ/Chin.
it is max possible if 7B splits only into Fre/Chin. But NOT Germ!
if it splits into Fre/Chin only, you might simplify the students structure. that is correct. sadly not by the automatic split feature. you need to modify the subgroups yourself (for example just by deleting them).
but i don't recommend it.
as long as your timetable is still solveable even with this "unneeded feature", i highly suggest to keep it. why? because you never now. you will maybe suddenly get new students into 7a, but without German. Or into 7b, but with German. You will use the dataset next year and you might forget to revert this special stuff, so the full timetable might be incorrect, ...
Only if you have got very difficult dataset and if you understand the generated subgroubs well, then you can thing about just deleting the unneeded subgroups (so just check each group and delete the unneeded subgroups).

[Sue Moran]

Thanks, I have to give it a think over. 7A do German seperately to the 7B group and only German speakers will enter 7A in the future.  I may have to find another subject to group with 7B Fre/Ger/Chin so that 7A have allocation in that split as well.

thanks