FET - Free Timetabling Software 5.11

FET - Free Timetabling Software 5.11 brings you a free, open source GNU/GPL software which localized to English, Arabic, Catalan, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Dutch, Polish, Romanian and Turkish etc. Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation. Powerful flexible modular xml format for the input file, allowing editing with an xml editor or by hand.

The resulted timetables are exported into xml and html formats. Very flexible students structure, organized into sets: years, groups and subgroups. FET allows overlapping years and groups and non-overlapping subgroups.

Major Features:

1. FET is free software (open source). You can freely use, copy, modify and re-distribute it, as GNU/GPL permits
2. Localized to en_GB (English), ar (Arabic), ca (Catalan), de (German), el (Greek), es (Spanish), fa (Persian), fr (French), hu (Hungarian), id (Indonesian), it (Italian), lt (Lithuanian), mk (Macedonian), ms (Malay), nl (Dutch), pl (Polish), ro (Romanian), ru (Russian) and tr (Turkish) (incompletely for some languages)
3. Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation
4. Platform independent implementation, allowing running on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac and any system that Qt supports
5. Powerful flexible modular XML format for the input file, allowing editing with an XML editor or by hand (besides FET interface)
6. Import/export from CSV format
7. The resulted timetables are exported into HTML, XML and CSV formats
8. Very flexible students (pupils) structure, organized into sets: years, groups and subgroups. FET allows overlapping years and groups and non-overlapping subgroups. You can even define individual students (as separate sets)
9. Each constraint has a weight percentage, from 0.0% to 100.0% (but some special constraints can have only 100% weight percentage possible)
10. Limits for the algorithm (all these limits can be increased on demand, as a custom version, because it requires a bit more memory):
    • Maximum total number of hours (periods) per day: 60
    • Maximum number of working days per week: 28
    • Maximum total number of teachers: 700
    • Maximum total number of sets of students: 15000
    • Maximum total number of subjects: 1000
    • Virtually unlimited number of activity tags
    • Maximum number of activities: 5000
    • Maximum number of rooms: 1000
    • Maximum number of buildings: 100
    • Adjustable duration for each activity (each activity can have duration of 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours or more)
    • Possibility of adding multiple teachers and students sets for each activity. That is, each activity can have specified any number of students subgroups (sets) and any number of teachers (it is possible to have no teacher or no students set for an activity, also)
    • Maximum number of time constraints: 10000
    • Maximum number of space constraints: 10000
11. A large and flexible palette of time constraints:
    • Break periods
    • For teacher(s):
    • • Not available periods
      • Max/min days per week
      • Max gaps per day/week
      • Max hours daily/continuously
      • Min hours daily
      • Max hours daily/continuously with an activity tag
      • Respect working in an hourly interval a max number of days per week
    • For students (sets):
    • • Not available periods
      • Begins early (specify max allowed beginnings at second hour)
      • Max gaps per day/week
      • Max hours daily/continuously
      • Min hours daily
      • Max hours daily/continuously with an activity tag
      • Respect working in an hourly interval a max number of days per week
    • For an activity or a set of activities/subactivities:
    • • A single preferred starting time
      • A set of preferred starting times
      • A set of preferred time slots
      • Min/max days between them
      • End(s) students day
      • Same starting time/day/hour
      • Not overlapping
      • Consecutive, ordered, grouped (for 2 or 3 (sub)activities)
      • Min gaps between a set of (sub)activities
12. A large and flexible palette of space constraints:
    • Room not available periods
    • For teacher(s):
    • • Home room(s)
      • Max building changes per day/week
      • Min gaps between building changes
    • For students (sets):
    • • Home room(s)
      • Max building changes per day/week
      • Min gaps between building changes
    • Preferred room(s):
    • • For a subject
      • For an activity tag
      • For a subject and an activity tag
      • Individually for a (sub)activity

Enhancements:

• Updated to Qt 4.5.2
• Converted all dialogs to Qt 4 Designer files suggested by George Miliotis. Compilation time is now shorter and intermediary and executable files are smaller.
• Added constraint teacher(s) min days per week (suggested by several users).
• Added constraint teacher(s) or students (set) for an activity tag maximum hours daily (suggested by several users). It is not perfect and must be enabled from settings menu.
• Added constraint students (set) max gaps per day. It is not perfect and must be enabled from settings menu.
• Very rare crash bug fix (reported by Marco Barsotti).
• Constraint room not available times permits now multiple constraints for the same room (so, you can use multiple constraints with different weights and preferences for the same room).
• In add/modify activity and modify subactivity dialogs, the students are displayed in a tree-like structure (suggested by George Miliotis).
• In all constraints dialogs, added a nice filter (suggested by daviodan).
• Changed name of constraint: MinNDaysBetweenActivities becomes MinDaysBetweenActivities.
• Added a count for activities list and constraints list.
• The constraints with tables now contain an X (nicer look), also centered nicely, and they have colors (which can be enabled in settings)
• The timetables view forms now center text in cells.
• Many other minor interface improvements.
• Rewritten the Catalan translation by Silvia. It is very complete, check it out.
• Added a new Greek sample file, by George Miliotis.
• Updated and improved Persian translation by sally sat.
• Dropped !DOCTYPE FET tag in the .fet files following general recommendations, and changed FET tag to fet tag. Of course you can open older files.
• Improved activities simple description (suggested by Massimo Mancini and alfaromeo).
• Added possibility to save the highest stage timetable (suggested by alfaromeo, pinco and Massimo Mancini).
• Added a new Romanian sample file, by Horatiu Halmajan.
• Updated translations: Russian, German, Romanian, Italian, Spanish.
• The timetable view dialogs now have resizeable widgets (you can drag the sections with the mouse) suggested by Ben Bauer.