Hi, I am not sure if I understood all the details, but it seems that you are discussing my choice of Section entry format, and suggesting an alternative that would make a lot more sense in your case.
Now the tricky part with sections is mostly that - some schools (at least Lithuanian, and now I see that German ones) have some constraints that must be satisfied, or some cases that just do not make sense, which allows for an easier more compact Students + Sections + Courses + Timetables format, the problem is (and that's why current formatting is being used) you can convert most if not any data format into the one Schooltool uses for import, while a compressed format being more convenient, can't express 100% of cases possible. Now what I don't like about our current way of presenting sections (Title, Term, Course, list of members, list of teachers) is that it is very verbose and you can't easily "explode" alternative formats into it in excel without programming. So if you have a list of students with Courses in columns, making that into a list of sections with all the students in the section listed, well, honestly - I have no idea how to do it... On the other hand, I would assume that creating a python/perl/java/C#/Visual basic script that would verify the constraints that you have and produce the output that schooltool expects should be possible, and gives you the benefit of picking the programming language and evironment ;) Ignas _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
