One .fet file for a 10-week schedule?

[Jens]

Hi All,

Firstly, kudos to the developers and many thanks for such a great program! I'm entirely new to FET, so my apologies if my question has been asked before. I did find similar questions on multi-week schedules, but couldn't really find a specific answer to my issue.

Here's my situation:

We have 4 groups (and a couple of sub-groups) that have to be included in one schedule. I've spent some time to learn the very basics and got the results I needed for one week (teachers, rooms, sub-groups, constraints). Everything works fine. However, I have to create a schedule for a 10-week period in which we have some subjects offered once a week, some subjects twice a week and some subjects only twice in total (e.g. week 2 and week 8 ).  We run a 5-day week, with 12 hours per day (incl breaks) and I've read that for a multi-week schedule, users have to change these settings (somehow). To keep it short: What's the easiest way to create a 10-week schedule in which every week is different from each other? Preferably, I'd also like to include dates while hoping to avoid creating 10 separate schedules for each week.

Again, sorry if this was explained before, but I hope someone can help with a simple advice.  Many thanks.

Cheers,
Jens

[Zsolt Udvari]

Check this thread: http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?topic=1197.msg6779#msg6779

[Jens]

Thanks, I haven't seen that thread before. However, I'm not sure if it can really solve my case. I'm getting the feeling that the program is great if your schedule is similar every week or only has slight changes between odd and even weeks. If all 10 weeks are different and I need the program to assign activities of a total of 50 days (10 weeks * 5 days), I assume that I'd run into problems. Most answers seem to help for 2 different weeks, but I don't see a convenient solution for a 10-week period. For example, I read "double all the data in a single file" or "I added t1, y1 and s1 for the first week; t2, y2 and s2 for the second week". Would that really work for 10 weeks (so t1 to t10 etc.?)

I also read that it's possible to increase the maximum of 35 days 'per week'. I guess if I could increase that to 50, I can name the days from "Monday, Week 1", "Tuesday, Week 1" to "Friday, Week 10". Then I should be able to use time constraints to determine in which week a certain subject has to be taught.
Would that maybe be an easier option?

[Liviu Lalescu]

FET is made for one week. I am not sure if there is another solution to 10 weeks than the one above, but also I am not sure it will function good.

[Jens]

Ok. Many thanks. Still a great program,  maybe just not what I need at the moment.

[Volker Dirr]

[...] a 10-week period in which we have some subjects offered once a week, some subjects twice a week and some subjects only twice in total (e.g. week 2 and week 8 ).

hmm... reading this sentences sound like you don't need to care about 10 weeks. You need to care only about 3 weeks.
1 week: "normal subjects"
2 week: "normal week, but some subjects changes (because they are twice a week)"
3 week: "week 2 with some new subjects"

if you schedule that new subjects from week 2 in the first or last period, then you even need to care only about 2 weeks:
1 week: "normal subjects"
2 week: "normal week, but some subjects changes (because they are twice a week). plus some new subjects in the first or last period"

so you need to schedule only 2 (or 3 weeks) and fist need to tell your students and teachers if they are currently in week 1 or 2 and if the special subjects take place in this week or not.