Importing constraints

[Frans]

Livui

I just wonder how the following can be done.

Let say I set a timetable for a specific term with constraints. The timetable is accepted by everyone and published.

What I do now for the next term is to export the information, I am interested in the activities, as csv files. These files are send to the people in charge to make changes for the second term for example. What I want to do now is to import the activity files using Fet to set the timetable for the specific term.

I do have a problem now. If I import the activities then I must add the constraints from scratch, hundreds of them.

If there are only one or two constraints and a few changes to the activities that is ot a problem.
Is there not a way that the existing constraints can be inported withou entering them again.  I know that I can save the timetable with data, including constraints, but this is of no help to me.

Is there a solution?

Kind regards.

Frans

[Liviu Lalescu]

Unfortunately, a solution would imply a lot of work. I'll add, however, this in the TODO list.

[Frans]

Thank you very much for the quick reply.

[Liviu Lalescu]

There is a trick possible: get the old .fet XML constraints and put them in the new file, using a text editor. But in the meantime some activities ids might have changed, or teachers' names or students' names.

[Frans]

I already thought about that. Fortunately the students' names and teachers' names change a minimum,

It is usually just a reallocation of groups, teachers and subjects. The rooms also stay the same.

Is it only the constraint section? What about venues?

Regrads.

[Liviu Lalescu]

Everything can be tricked like this.