Gap

See the courses that can fill a gap

1. In all the displays  Timetable and  Schedule, while holding the key [Alt] pressed, click on the beginning of the gap in the timetable.
2.  New  In the popup window, all courses, even those that are not on the grid (unplaced courses) are now proposed.
3. EDT frames courses that can be placed here:
   • in white, if the displacement can be performed while observing the constraints,
   • in blue, if you must ignore a constraint.
4. You then can displace the course of your choice (Displace the courses).

Configure gap management during an automatic placement

1. Go to the menu Calculation > Launch an automatic placement.
2. Go to the tab Placement preferences and specify if the half-hour gaps and the gaps around the half-board time slot should be considered as gaps, meaning to be avoided if possible.
3. By default, the placement criteria are balanced in a way that the one does not encroach on the other. To prioritize the avoidance of gaps, return to the tab Information, on the bottom right click on the button Customize the calculation criteria and augment the associated value to Penalize gaps (teachers) and/or Penalize gaps (class).

Specify individually the number of gap hours tolerated by the teachers

This threshold is only taken into account when optimizing timetables (Optimize the timetables).

1. Go to the tab Timetable > Teachers >  Unavailability, wishes and constraints.
2. Select the teachers who are tolerant of the same number of gap hours and specify the Number of tolerated gap hours in the drop-down menu on the bottom right.

See the number of gaps for a resource

1. Go to the tab Timetable > Teachers/Classes >  List.
2. Click on the top right of the list on the button : for every resource in the list EDT displays the number of half-hour gaps, the number of one hour gaps and the number of gaps superior to one hour.

Note: if the cumulated duration of the gaps (column C.D.G.) exceeds the number of tolerated gap hours (column T.G.H.) it is displayed in red.