Activities Meeting on Either Monday or Friday But Not Both

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OnBeyondBeing

June 17, 2013, 01:01:23 AM
I am using FET to schedule a course that meets two times in a standard 5-day week.

The two activities must have a full day between them so MinDaysBetweenActivities is set to 2, at 100%.  However, I do not want the activities to be scheduled on both Monday and Friday, because I consider Monday and Friday to be "consecutive" days.  See below.

OK:
Tuesday and Thursday
Monday and Wednesday
Tuesday and Friday

NOT OK:
Tuesday and Wednesday
Thursday and Friday
Monday and Friday

Is there any way to make FET consider Monday and Friday consecutive for purposes of the MinDaysBetweenActivities constraint?  If not, is there any way to express this constraint in FET some other way?

Volker Dirr

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June 17, 2013, 05:52:17 AM
Quote from: OnBeyondBeing on June 17, 2013, 01:01:23 AMThe two activities must have a full day between them so MinDaysBetweenActivities is set to 2, at 100%.  However, I do not want the activities to be scheduled on both Monday and Friday, [...]

hmm... there are even 2 days between them (Saturday and Sunday).

Quote from: OnBeyondBeing on June 17, 2013, 01:01:23 AMIs there any way to make FET consider Monday and Friday consecutive for purposes of the MinDaysBetweenActivities constraint?  If not, is there any way to express this constraint in FET some other way?

A MaxDaysBetweenActivities set to 4 at 100% should help.

Liviu Lalescu

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June 17, 2013, 06:15:21 AM
Quote from: Volker Dirr on June 17, 2013, 05:52:17 AM
A MaxDaysBetweenActivities set to 4 at 100% should help.

Very nice, Volker, I didn't think of this.

OnBeyondBeing

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June 19, 2013, 07:01:54 PM
Yes, that worked perfectly.

Thank you so much.
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