Contents

• 1. Getting Started
  • 1.1 Installing FineTime
    • 1.1.1 System Requirements
    • 1.1.2 Installing FineTime for Windows
    • 1.1.3 Installing FineTime for Linux
  • 1.2 Starting and Registering FineTime
    • 1.2.1 Starting FineTime
    • 1.2.2 The FineTime User Interface
    • 1.2.3 Registering FineTime
  • 1.3 Managing Timetable Files
    • 1.3.1 Opening a Timetable
    • 1.3.2 Saving a Timetable
    • 1.3.3 Closing a Timetable
  • 1.4 Creating a New Timetable
    • 1.4.1 Starting a Timetable
    • 1.4.2 Continuing your Timetable
  
  
• 2. Specifying your School Details
  • 2.1 School Resource Lists
    • 2.1.1 The List Window
    • 2.1.2 The List Modification Buttons
    • 2.1.3 The Dialog Control Buttons
  • 2.2 School Resource Dialogs
    • 2.2.1 Venue Types
    • 2.2.2 Venues
    • 2.2.3 Subjects
    • 2.2.4 Levels
    • 2.2.5 Courses
    • 2.2.6 Teachers
    • 2.2.7 Groups
    • 2.2.8 Couplings
  • 2.3 Availability Tables
  
  
• 3. Importing and Exporting School Details
  • 3.1 Importing School Details
  • 3.2 Exporting School Details
  
  
• 4. Devising your Timetable
  • 4.1 Setting the Timetable View
    • 4.1.1 Viewing by Lesson Property
    • 4.1.2 Setting the Zoom Level
    • 4.1.3 Timetable Display Options
  • 4.2 Scheduling the Lessons
    • 4.2.1 Dragging Lesson Cards
    • 4.2.2 Allocating Resources
    • 4.2.3 Assigning Auxiliary Teachers
    • 4.2.4 Reversing Changes
    • 4.2.5 Selecting Lesson Cards
    • 4.2.6 Lesson Card Operations
    • 4.2.7 Automatic Scheduling
    • 4.2.8 Restrictions
  • 4.3 Substitution Timetables
  
  
• 5. Printing and Exporting Timetables
  • 5.1 Printing and Exporting the Master Timetable
    • 5.1.1 Printing the Master Timetable
    • 5.1.2 Exporting the Master Timetable
  • 5.2 Printing and Exporting Resource Timetables
    • 5.2.1 Printing and Exporting Single Timetables
    • 5.2.2 Printing and Exporting Multiple Timetables
  
  
• A. School Resource File Format
  • A.1 Tokens in the Format Description
  • A.2 The First Line
  • A.3 Format of the Resource Sections
  • A.4 Venue Type Line Format
  • A.5 Venue Line Format
  • A.6 Subject Line Format
  • A.7 Level Line Format
  • A.8 Course Line Format
  • A.9 Teacher Line Format
  • A.10 Group Line Format
  • A.11 Coupling Line Format