UniTime 4.1 build 231

Course Timetabling

Automatic Hierarchical Constraints

• Improved parsing of the General.AutomaticHierarchicalConstraints parameter.
• If there is a date pattern that is not used or that does not exist, do not skip parsing of the
  rest of the parameter.
• Check for English (not localized) versions of the preferences and for preference abbreviations.
• Flexible and other constraints (that are not implemented by the GroupConstraint class) are now
  allowed as well.
• Date patterns containing commas must use quotation marks, e.g., Preferred Same Start "Week
  1,3,5".

Automatic Student Constraints

• Added ability to automatically post certain distribution constraints between classes that are
  attended by the same students (the given constraints are posted between all classes of
  a student).
• This is only enabled when deterministic student sectioning is used.
• The list of constraints that are to be posted (together with their preferences) is given by
  solver parameter General.AutomaticStudentConstraints.
  • Contains a comma delimited list of , for example:
  • Preferred Max 1 Break, Strongly Preferred At Most 6 Hrs, Required 8h Work-Day
• By default, the given constraints are posted on every set of classes that are attended by at
  least 5 students (must be all classes those 5 students are attending).
  • This can be changed by General.AutomaticStudentConstraints.StudentLimit solver parameter
    (defaults to 5).

Timetable Grid

• Added room tooltip when resource is Room and when hovering over a room name (top left corner of
  each table).

Curricula

• Last-Like Course Demands: Consider demand offering (Take Course Demands from Offering parameter
  on a course) when showing last-like enrollments and when Curricula Last Like Course Demands are
  used.
• Multiple Majors: Fixed a null exception thrown when there are last-like or real students
  matching multiple majors of a multi-major curriculum on Oracle.

Class Assignment

• Fixed a null exception thrown when there is a student conflict with a class event for a class
  that is not assigned.
  • This can happen when the Class Assignment page is configured not to change the past and
    a class is unassigned later in the term.
• Also, do now show student conflicts with canceled classes / meetings.

Time Pattern Icons

• Fixed an issue that was causing a "Coordinate out of bounds!" error when a time pattern icon for
  a pattern with more than 7 day combinations was being rendered.
• The issue was introduced by a recent change allowing Room Sharing and Instructor Time
  Preferences grid to run over Sunday.

Curriculum Course Demands: Precision Fix

• Make sure that the computation of the curriculum-based student course demands does not get stuck
  due to the floating point precision inaccuracy.

Instructor Preferences

• Added ability for an instructor to edit his/her preferences, using Courses > Input Data >
  Instructor Detail page.
• Permissions needed: Instructor Detail and Instructor Preferences, but NEVER HasRole permission
  (which should be reserved for manager roles).
• Session/department statuses needed: Owner View (to see the detail page) and Owner Edit (for the
  ability to edit preferences).
• If an instructor exists in two or more departments, there is a Department drop-down on the
  Instructor Detail page allowing the user to switch departments.

Student Scheduling

Banner XE Interface

• When dropping a section and the DW action is not available, check for other D% action that can
  be used.
• Log all the exceptions and Banner messages as warnings. Also log all the exceptions when no
  enrollment change is detected.
  • This fixes the issue of not seeing the "Section not available for student scheduling." in the
    log.

Course Requests, Student Scheduling Assistant

• Added ability to hide up and down arrows in the Course Requests table.
• This can be done by setting the application property unitime.enrollment.hideCourseRequestArrows
  to true (defaults to false).

Event Management

Personal Schedule: Examinations and Course-Related Events

• Fixed an issue introduced by commit 8d552bf: OfferingCoordinator is not mapped error is shown
  when looking up a coordinator schedule (role:Coordinator in the event filter).

Event Timetable: Arrange Hours Classes

• Do not show Arrange Hours classes on the week of January 1.
• That is, when a week containing January 1 is selected in the Filter, not All Weeks or All
  Matching Weeks.

Examinations

PDF Reports: Period Chart

• Period Chart report: corrected breaking of the report over the week's end.
• This fixes an issue of not printing Monday periods in some cases.

Administration

Session Roll Forward: Fixed bug with Subject Area Roll Forward

• The roll forward has been updated to fail when rolling subject areas forward into a session that
  does not have departments that match the departments the subject areas should be attached to.

Data Exchange: Course Offerings and Course Timetable Exports

• Added ability to include individual class meetings in the course offerings and course timetable
  exports.
• This feature can be enabled by setting the tmtbl.export.classMeetings application property to
  true (defaults to false).

HQL Reports: Export HQL

• Improved the ability to download a particular HQL report, using
  UniTime/export?output=hql-report.csv URL.
• Academic session can be selected using term parameter.
• HQL appearance and admin-only permissions are checked (the user must have the appropriate
  permissions to be able to get the report).
• Report parameter can contain name of the report (instead of unique id).
• Individual report parameters can be looked up (no need to retrieve unique ids first), for
  example: DEPARTMENT=, SUBJECT=, ROOM=, or RoomType=.

User Context: Default Academic Session

• Added ability to shift current date by a given number of days when computing default academic
  session.
• Application property unitime.session.defaultSessionShiftDays, defaults to 0.
• This could be used, e.g., to start showing users the next academic session two weeks before the
  classes / events start.