Rooms not being calculated in timetable

[mikef]

Hi, I'm new to FET.  
I've added my room data, groups, subgroups, teachers and activities.

I've set the room capacities correctly.

It generates the timetable almost correctly, so that is great.

But the "view room timetable" is completely blank.  And when you view the teacher's or student's timetable, there is no room information on there at all.

Can anyone suggest anything to solve this?

Is there something else I need to do to get it to allocate rooms when it generates a new timetable?

Thanks very much for any advice.

Mike.

[Chafik Graiguer]

Hi mikef
in order to have FET schedule activities into rooms, first you should assgin rooms to those activities before generating timetable
There are many ways to do so:
- a: if you have enough rooms, you can:
-a1: assign each teacher  a "home room"  on his own
or
-a2: assign each student set to a home room on his own

- b: If tou have limited room resources, then you can:
-b1: assign two teachers to the same home room
or
-b2: assign two student sets to the same home room
or
-b2: assign each subject to a "set of prefered home rooms"
etc...

[Liviu Lalescu]

That is, add space constraints preferred room(s) or home room(s).

[mikef]

Thank you!  That has worked.

Thanks for making this product open-source.  I'm just starting to learn it now but it looks really good.

Mike F.

[Garouda]

Hello, not really the same problem but related to rooms so I post the question here.
We have only one room with LCD projector and one computer lab. Would the teachers always use the rooms I would use the constraint "an activity has a prefered room", but this is not the case. Let's take one example: the social studies teacher teaches each grades two periods a week, how can I assign the room constraint to one of this periods? In other words: one period in the classroom and one period in the LCD room.
I could have said Biology, three periods, one in the dedicated LCD room... This to avoid "conflicts" between teachers who would like to use this room at the same time.
Thanks

[Liviu Lalescu]

Hello, not really the same problem but related to rooms so I post the question here.
We have only one room with LCD projector and one computer lab. Would the teachers always use the rooms I would use the constraint "an activity has a prefered room", but this is not the case. Let's take one example: the social studies teacher teaches each grades two periods a week, how can I assign the room constraint to one of this periods? In other words: one period in the classroom and one period in the LCD room.
I could have said Biology, three periods, one in the dedicated LCD room... This to avoid "conflicts" between teachers who would like to use this room at the same time.
Thanks

I am not sure I understand. You have an activity split into 2 or 3 per week. Just add constraint activity preferred room, why can't you do that?

Or do you mean that you have a single activity with duration 2 or 3? Then, instead of this single activity, add an activity split into 2 or 3, and force them consecutive or grouped (do not add a constraint min days between activities for them). Now, add constraint activity preferred room.

[Volker Dirr]

please use "an activity has a prefered room". it refer only to a split (sub)activity. Not to the whole activity.

[Garouda]

Thank you, I was looking for an unexisting problem. Actually I tought the constraint applied to the total activity and not to each sub activity (total duration 2, 2 "sub" activities of duration 1 which can be separately managed).
Your program is amazing...
Thank you again