Stop pulling replacement activities

[EMorf]

I've had a few emails of students confusing make-up and regular tutorials. In particular, the scrapper is not able to differentiate between them and pulls both. So tutorials that occur only once as makeups appear to be regular tutorials on our timetable. Would it be possible to prevent the scrapper from storing activities that occur only once per semester?

[samyex6]

It's possible if the scraper also fetches the week field from the source and we can implement a feature to show classes on a given week only.

Can you provide a course which such situations occur?

[EMorf]

Here's the whole email:

Dear Emmanuel,

We have received many complaints that students are getting confused when they are using the ANU Timetable Builder http://anutimetable.com/.

Some classes are timetabled as makeup classes for some specific weeks only, however, the ANU Timetable Builder does not display the week/s that the makeup classes are timetabled. For example (screen shot shown below), Friday 9-10am for POLS2009 is a makeup Tutorial for one week only taken place last week.

Sometimes when room changes being updated to the timetable, the ANU Timetable Builder did not reflect the updates timely, as a result, it has caused further confusions.

It will be great if you can please remove the room information from the ANU Timetable Builder, so the students can check the ANU official Timetable website for room information and hence they are able to view the actual weeks for the classes being timetabled.

Please let know me if this kind of update is possible. Many thanks.

[EMorf]

and the screenshot:

[EMorf]

tds.eq(6) has the weeks, which can be grabbed by the regex ((\d+-\d+)+,?)+ if it's any help.

[samyex6]

Cool I'll try implement it on the weekend.

[samyex6]

Implemented. However it still requires some testing.

The JSON structure now has an additional array at index 4 which stores the starting date and ending date of the semester, it's used to calculate the week offset and display them from 1 instead of week of the year.
Also each class now has note (additional info like 'makeup tutorial cuz of flooding', it'll appear as a hoverable button) and weeks (e.g. 8,10-12,14) field.

[EMorf]

Wow, nicely done @samyex6 . I've fixed some bugs I found and now I'm comparing courses in random with the official timetable. So far it looks like it's perfectly accurate.

[samyex6]

The source that's being pushed to the website is outdated and caused the website to be broken, you might want to update it asap

[EMorf]

On it, almost done.

[samyex6]

somehow tutorial choosing doesn't work anymore

[EMorf]

Yep, I'm aware. I just pushed to avoid the website being down, the fix is coming soon. Just testing now.

[EMorf]

#242

[EMorf]

Looks like there's still an issue due to tutorials being set as not having alternatives, which overwrites the saved ID which is chosen by the user... I'll investigate more tomorrow

[mdchia]

The week switcher means that tutorials that appear later in the semester fail to appear on earlier weeks - current hotfix is to default to display to week 2, but there's probably a better way of handling this