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Adding date range for Sections

Asked by Paul Mannino

I teach at a small flight school. We do not have the concept of YEARs or TERMs. We have COURSEs (probably 6) and run SECTIONs continuously and serially throughout the year. Each SECTION has a specified starting date and ending date. There's a long course that's roughly 14 days and a short course that's roughly 4 days.

COURSEs are I300 and R300. SECTION titles include the starting month, alpha, and the year.

I'd like to specify date ranges for each of the associated sections as follows:
I300-1A-14 1/4/2014 1/20/2014
I300-1B-14 1/15/2014 1/30/2014
I300-1C-14 1/30/2014 2/14/2014

R300-1A-14 1/6/2014 1/9/2014
R300-1B-14 1/13/2014 1/16/2014
R300-2A-14 2/10/2014 2/15/2014

I set up my YEAR from 2014-01-01 until 2017-12-31. I tried to create a TERM for each range of SECTION dates, but got an error that said they overlapped. Is it possible to do what I want? I didn't see dates in the SECTIONS GUI.

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Tom Hoffman (tom-hoffman) said : 		#1

Hi Paul,

Yes, this is something that needs to be updated in the documentation.

Just set up one term spanning the whole year.

When you create a section, there is a Schedule link in the section's sidebar. Click that, click Add: Schedule.

Then you'll see tabs for Terms and Custom Date Range. You can use the Custom Date Range tab to select whatever start and end dates you need.

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Paul Mannino (pmannino) said : 		#2

Thank you for your prompt reply. I saw that, but it requires a TIMETABLE. We're not using those either. How would I go about fudging on of those?

Paul Mannino
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Subject: Re: [Question #249810]: Adding date range for Sections

Your question #249810 on SchoolTool changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/schooltool/+question/249810

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom Hoffman proposed the following answer:
Hi Paul,

Yes, this is something that needs to be updated in the documentation.

Just set up one term spanning the whole year.

When you create a section, there is a Schedule link in the section's
sidebar. Click that, click Add: Schedule.

Then you'll see tabs for Terms and Custom Date Range. You can use the
Custom Date Range tab to select whatever start and end dates you need.

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Paul Mannino (pmannino) said : 		#3

Answered my own question. I just created one TIMETABLE stretching from 00:00 - 23:59. I can probably break this up after my prototype demo.

Thanks!

Paul Mannino
Instructor Pilot

Office: (703)735-6272 (Best number to call M-F 8-5)
Mobile: (703)282-5276 (I don't carry this with me during office hours)
Home: (703)729-2966

Website: http://www.PotomacFlightTraining.com/
   http://www.PotomacAirCharter.com/

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From: <email address hidden> [<email address hidden>] on behalf of Tom Hoffman [<email address hidden>]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 3:02 PM
To: Paul Mannino
Subject: Re: [Question #249810]: Adding date range for Sections

Your question #249810 on SchoolTool changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/schooltool/+question/249810

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom Hoffman proposed the following answer:
Hi Paul,

Yes, this is something that needs to be updated in the documentation.

Just set up one term spanning the whole year.

When you create a section, there is a Schedule link in the section's
sidebar. Click that, click Add: Schedule.

Then you'll see tabs for Terms and Custom Date Range. You can use the
Custom Date Range tab to select whatever start and end dates you need.

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Tom Hoffman (tom-hoffman) said : 		#4

Is there some kind of pattern to the times when sections meet?

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Tom Hoffman (tom-hoffman) said : 		#5

Or, yeah, just fake it. ;-)

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