Feature Request

[drew]

I started a couple threads on the mail list.

Liviu suggest it would be better to have the discussions in the forum.

So first I'll recap, inserting Liviu's comments before continuing.


drew einhorn <...> wrote:

> I'm scheduling a conference.
>
> There are several "All Hands" activities: meals, keynotes, etc.,
> where all teachers, and student groups attend.
>
> It would be nice if there was an include all button under teachers
> and students.
>

1) Yes, the interface of FET is not very nice. But it does the minimum
necessary. I am not skilled at interfaces, and I have no time. I prefer
to work on algorithms. I designed the interface just to have one. The
algorithm is the essence of FET, and I hope others will come up with
better interfaces, because the engine is GNU GPL and can be used
by anybody.

Maybe in a month or so I will get time to make an attempt at tweaking
the interface along these lines.  In the meantime, is there a place where
you collect, and prioritize feature requests from users.

> For these activities: It would be nice if the teacher's schedules
> were not cluttered with the list of all student groups, and the
> student's schedules were not cluttered with list of all teachers.
>

2) For your situation, maybe a trick: add a constraint break for these
slots. Will show an -X- in the timetable in this slot, for everybody.

Could you explain in a bit more detail how to do this?

[drew]

Here's another request from the mail list.


On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:12:28 -0600
drew einhorn <...> wrote:

> It would also be nice to delete empty rows/columns from the html
> output.

Volker knows how to answer here. He might be away now for a few days,
he'll answer when he's back.

Just copying this from the mail list to the forum. 

Waiting for Volker's response.

[Liviu Lalescu]

Maybe in a month or so I will get time to make an attempt at tweaking
the interface along these lines.  In the meantime, is there a place where
you collect, and prioritize feature requests from users.

The TODO file in the FET package.

As a note, I also would prefer that all future work on another interface to be done as a separate package. If an interface will be proven good, I'll post links to it.

> For these activities: It would be nice if the teacher's schedules
> were not cluttered with the list of all student groups, and the
> student's schedules were not cluttered with list of all teachers.
>

2) For your situation, maybe a trick: add a constraint break for these
slots. Will show an -X- in the timetable in this slot, for everybody.

Could you explain in a bit more detail how to do this?

Time constraints -> break, select those slots you need, marking them with x.

[Volker Dirr]

> It would also be nice to delete empty rows/columns from the html
> output.

hmmm... you mean an option similar to fet->advanced->activity planning->hide empty lines; but just in the timetable.

currently it is not possible.
you can delete rows easy manualy with an editor.
deleting columns with an editor need much more time.

i am not sure if that is a usefull feature in the timetable. imagine a guy has a free day on wednesday. if i delete that empy day, then you can't see quickly that he has free that day.
and what is if the table change. maybe next time he has free at an other day and didn't see that quick enough.
so i fear some teachers and students can missunderstood a shorten table.

similar problem if you delete hours. (maybe not as critical has deleting days, but i fear still critical).