Components view

Topic 4 of 10

Next you should input the resources (or components) of your institution - items from the categories classes, teachers, rooms, subjects, students or equipment that you can define in Options|Categories. The types of components are different in each environment, but in schools typically at least teachers and rooms are used.

Select from Window menu the Components view as the active window. You can add new components by the Edit|Insert selection or by pressing the [Insert] key. With each component, you associate a unique code of at most 15 characters, a descriptive name of at most 63 characters and select the appropriate category from the list of available categories.

Example:

Use Edit|Modify or [Enter] to modify and Edit|Delete or [Delete] to delete a component. Input the following classes (C), teachers (T) and rooms (R) and finally sort them (by category and code) by clicking the title row at CODE (or use the Tools|Sort components by ... selection other sorting criteria).

Note that the first column (#) is a running number intended to help you to keep track of the number of components that have been inserted so far and (*) contains the shortcut of the category. You cannot change the MAX, SUM, DONE or LINKS fields in this window, since they are automatically maintained by the application. When courses are inserted, the lectures are allocated to weeks and finally they are inserted into timetables. Their meaning will become clear in the upcoming stages.

Activate next the Courses window. (If some of the four main windows Components, Courses, Weeks or Timetables disappears, go to the bottom of the Window menu selection and activate it there or press repeatedly [Ctrl+F6] until you see the window you are looking for).