FET and semesters

[gt]

Hello. I am new to FET and need scheduling academic courses.
My question: what is the best way to manage two different semesters?
I'm thinking so:
1- enter all data for that year (courses, teachers, activities etc). Save the file as "ALL"
2- deactivate all entries referred to 2nd semester. Save the file as "1st sem"
3- re-open "ALL"
4- deactivate all entries referred to 1st semester. Save the file as "2st sem"

Then open "1st sem" (or "2nd sem") and go on working to get the outputs.
Is there a better way to go?
Excuse my simple question. Thanks in advance

[Liviu Lalescu]

Hello!

The question is not simple, and I am not sure I understand correctly. Maybe your idea is correct. Yes, add an activity tag AT1 to 1st semester and AT2 for 2nd, and activate/deactivate all activities for AT1/AT2.

Or maybe you would like to use the Terms mode (for Finland), and consider term 1 = 1st semester and term 2 = 2nd semester. But I am not sure I understand correctly.

I need to ask why can't you have two files, one for each semester? Maybe you have some pdf example?

[gt]

Yes, two files are a plain solution. I was just thinking that could be useful to have one "reference" file containing everything. In particular when semesters' organization is still in progress. I'll go with two files.
Thanks for your answer.

[Liviu Lalescu]

You could try a small example with AT1 and AT2 and a single file, see how it goes. In the activity tags dialogs, you can activate/deactivate all activities for the selected tag.