In the documentation and all examples I can find... in terms of nurse scheduling at least, everyone just declares shift values within the search space of {1,4} lets say for shift 1,2,3,4....
solver = pywrapcp.Solver("schedule_shifts")
num_nurses = 4
num_shifts = 4 # Nurse assigned to shift 0 means not working that day.
num_days = 7
# [START]
# Create shift variables.
shifts = {}
for j in range(num_nurses):
for i in range(num_days):
shifts[(j, i)] = solver.IntVar(0, num_shifts - 1, "shifts(%i,%i)" % (j, i))
shifts_flat = [shifts[(j, i)] for j in range(num_nurses) for i in range(num_days)]
# Create nurse variables.
nurses = {}
for j in range(num_shifts):
for i in range(num_days):
nurses[(j, i)] = solver.IntVar(0, num_nurses - 1, "shift%d day%d" % (j,i))
I want to avoid the use of range of values when I call solver.IntVar(lowerbound, upperbound, ...)
I want IntSolver([available values that you can choose], ...)
I created a matrix of all shifts as the columns flowing from the first day to last. My row indexes don't matter but in each day/shift column, I have the index values of nurses in ranked descending order of who bid the highest for that shift. I want to create then a constraint where if I choose a nurse, I choose the maximum bid that is allowed via other constraints from the column, however I don't know how to do that given the limited documentation ortools has with python IntVar.
