Defining Activities with Duration > 1

[Liviu Lalescu]

Yes, it's clear now. But you do understand my point that from a user's perspective, mixing the consecutive and days apart is confusing, because logically they have nothing to do with each other? And, in this concrete example, setting a value for 1 days apart is even more confusing when the actual goal is to have them on the same day?

The constraint 'min days between activities' was designed mainly to make activities 1 days apart. In usual schools/high-schools, they prefer this, and in case the activities are on the same day they should be generally consecutive. At the time we designed this, in the year ~2007, this seemed like a logical approach. Yes, maybe you have your reasons... I was just trying to find tricks for your unusual case. It is certainly possible to just modify this data, in a custom version.

Thanks, I'm amazed at how fast you answer in general.

You're welcome! Thank you for your kind words!

[maxi_mus]

About one more comment: If there is a constraint min days between activities, FET will never place more than two activities on the same day, by design. PS: In the past, FET could place three activities on the same day if consecutive if same day = false, but this was changed on 18 May 2022, in FET 6.4.0.

A follow up question on this as well: Do you mean hours here, or actual activities?

If you mean hours: This would mean if I define an activity as 1+2, then the weight of the min days constraint (if it's of value 1) is irrelevant, because they can never be placed on the same day anyway, right?

[Liviu Lalescu]

About one more comment: If there is a constraint min days between activities, FET will never place more than two activities on the same day, by design. PS: In the past, FET could place three activities on the same day if consecutive if same day = false, but this was changed on 18 May 2022, in FET 6.4.0.

A follow up question on this as well: Do you mean hours here, or actual activities?

About one more comment: If there is a constraint min days between activities, FET will never place more than two activities on the same day, by design. PS: In the past, FET could place three activities on the same day if consecutive if same day = false, but this was changed on 18 May 2022, in FET 6.4.0.

A follow up question on this as well: Do you mean hours here, or actual activities?

If you mean hours: This would mean if I define an activity as 1+2, then the weight of the min days constraint (if it's of value 1) is irrelevant, because they can never be placed on the same day anyway, right?

If you mean hours: This would mean if I define an activity as 1+2, then the weight of the min days constraint (if it's of value 1) is irrelevant, because they can never be placed on the same day anyway, right?

Unfortunately, I mean activities.

But I have a solution for you if you need hours: constraint of type students/teachers activity tag max hours daily. Enable the constraint type without worrying, and add a tag to these activities. Might be more work involved (that is why I preferred to add split activities divided into subactivities each with duration 1).

I will leave now for about 2-3 hours, without internet. If you reply to this message in the next 10 minutes, I will see it. I can postpone my departure then.

[maxi_mus]

Please, by all means, don't worry about me when scheduling your day. I always have time to wait for answers, and it's always good if I have to figure out some stuff by myself 

[Liviu Lalescu]