NovaT4 Alternative

[Wubbalubbadub]

Ok I have an issue...

 

Basically at my current school there is a windows xp machine with Nova T4 on it.

 

The windows xp machine has finally packed up and gone.

 

The timetabler, (Vice principal) has said that he needs T4 because T6 doesn't do the time tabling in the same way. (Something like that)

 

So my question is... Has anyone else had this issue? I know there is nova T6 but has anyone found an alternative that ithere addicted T4 users are happy with?

 

Thanks

[nickbro]

Send them on a course to get to grips with T6

[PhilNeal]

Nova-T4 diehards won't adjust to anything else!! Nova-T6 saves several weeks of effort by comparison.

T4 will run on later machines than XP.

[mrbios]

It'll run on windows 7 32bit machine too if you have one.

 

Not that i'd recommend it though, they need to accept that times change. It's time for them to change and learn to use the new system.

[rich_tech]

Getting some people to change is like trying to stop the tide where most of us work

[synaesthesia]

Yes, we had exactly that. We, er, "phased" it out with each release of SIMS.

Our timetabler now uses T4 at home on an old XP notebook with the knowledge that when it's gone, it's gone. She then imports into T6.

As above, training. Some problems are not technologically fixable

[jallsop]

I have to say that both of these have their good points. I preferred T4 for quite some time, as it was fine for most 'simple' school timetables. Using modelling and construction, options etc made a nice logical sense as it followed the paper way of doing things. T6 ditched some of this and for a few years you had to use both, which was painful, and on one memorable occasion, it scrambled the entire timetable. Not fun. I'm led to believe T6 is now much better for a start to finish approach to timetabling.