Screen Description
In the Edit Room Preference screen, you can indicate whether a given room should be used more or less often than other available rooms.
Details
You can pick the preference level for a given room for a given department (the preference you set is for your department only - if for example two departments share a room, one of them may discourage the usage of that room while the other one can just use the default "Neutral" preference).
The meaning of the preference levels is as follows:
- Prohibited – never ever use this room (even if required on a class)
- Strongly discouraged – this room is used only if either
- The room is required for a class, or
- The room is preferred or strongly preferred for a class and the solver is not able to put this class into another room
- Discouraged – this room is used if either
- The room is required for a class, or
- The solver is not able to put this class into another room
- The difference between Strongly Discouraged and Discouraged is that for Strongly Discouraged, a room can only be used if there is a preference set on a class or subpart for this room, while with Discouraged, the timetabling solver can put a class into this room no matter whether there is a preference for this room on a class or not (e.g., when there is not enough space in other rooms to accommodate all your classes)
- Neutral – the default value for room preference
- It is not recommended that you use Preferred or Strongly Preferred.
- If you do use these preference levels, it will mean that all of your classes will have this room as preferred (or strongly preferred), unless you change the preference in the class preferences
Operations
- Update (Alt+U)
- Back (Alt+B)
- Go back to the Room Detail screen without saving any changes
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