Warning if more than one resource by acivitiy

Started by Chafik Graiguer, September 15, 2009, 05:13:38 PM

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Chafik Graiguer

Compared with last year, FET took more time to come up with  a timetable this year
In fact, It wasnot FET's fault, it was mine :-[
it was not a software mistake, it was a rather a human mistake

By mistake, I put two students set in the same activity !!!

Well, first I choose teacher T1, subject Isl, split 1,  duration 1, then I double click on the student set 2B01
Finally, I cliked "add" button
Then I had to  add a new activity with same teacher, same subjet duration... and new student set
I simply double click on another student set, 2P01
Unfortunatlly, I  forgot to first remove 2B01, which was there from previousely added activity
Now I had activity A1 with 2B01 as a student set
and activity A2 with 2B01 and 2P01 as students set :-[

This mistake cost me extra time to find a timetable witch was wrong !!!!! because 2B01 shouldnot have been there with 2P01 in activity A2

Since FET warns you if you add activity with empty teacher or student field,
Is it possible to have FET issue a warning whenever a user input more than one resource into an activity: for example: two teachers or two students sets ?

Liviu Lalescu

I don't know what other people say, let's hear them. I am not sure if some users might be annoyed by such messages, if they have many activities with more students/teachers.

Volker Dirr

#2
In my opinion it is already a little bit annoying if FET warn me if i add an activity without students, teachers, ...
I don't like so many warnings.

In my opinion it is no problem, because before generating a timetable I check the statistics. So i can see bugs like that already before generating a timetable.

But one the other hand you are right and espicialy new users will maybe "need" this warning. (So warn if there are 2 or more teachers or 2 or more students).

I doesn't effect me to much, because i normaly use csv.

Chafik Graiguer

#3
Well
Let us heard from other poeples
The problem is that sometimes, I forget to remove the previousely added teacher or student from the previous activity when adding a new activity
maybe, you could add the possibility to turn warnnig ON and OFF in the settings menu, like colors !
I also sugget to make the settings menu a flat menu ( a window) with settings grouped into recangles , using checkbox, I mean a window style similar to style of the last window in spreading activities uniformly in the week

QuoteI doesn't effect me to much, because i normaly use csv.
Could elaborate more please ? Do you mean you enter data into a csv file befor importing them into FET?

Volker Dirr

#4
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Could elaborate more please ? Do you mean you enter data into a csv file befor importing them into FET?

i do it very similar to this (not exactly, but pretty close):
http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?topic=267.msg1453#msg1453