Course outline
Work through the chapters in order. Your progress is remembered, so you can pick up where you left off.
Orientation
Part 1: Introduction to Dime.Scheduler
3 chaptersOrientation
Coming soonRead-once orientation: how the academy works, who to contact, where to find docs and the FAQ, plus the partner program (licensing, services, marketing, how a typical engagement runs).
18 lessonsGetting Started
Coming soonWhat Dime.Scheduler is, who it's for, and how to get from a fresh tenant to your first scheduled appointment.
8 lessonsYour Dime.Scheduler UI
Coming soonA helicopter overview of the UI. The components, dock panels, profiles, and layouts you'll personalize so the tool fits your business processes.
11 lessons
Part 2: The Planning Process
4 chaptersPlanning Preparation
Coming soonSending masterdata from Business Central, finding the work to be done, and finding the right resource by location, qualifications, and availability.
11 lessonsScheduling with the Planning Board
Coming soonDrag-and-drop scheduling, the BC sync that runs underneath, date navigation, and rescheduling without losing your mind.
13 lessonsFinding Appointments on Your Planning Board
Coming soonVisual indicators, retracing planned tasks, notifications, overbooking, and constraints — so the right appointments are always one glance away.
12 lessonsConsulting Your Schedule
Coming soonEnd-user-facing surfaces: the Dime.Scheduler Agenda, the Exchange sync, and the mobile app — for everyone who consumes the schedule.
11 lessons
Part 3: Business Central Modules
4 chaptersConnecting Business Central
Coming soonThe real BC ↔ DS setup: app registration, multi-backoffice connector, the Backoffice Portal, and resource planning hierarchy.
13 lessonsAd-hoc Workflow
Coming soonSales orders and ad-hoc project planning — the loop of create-in-BC, plan-in-DS, sync-back-to-BC.
13 lessonsProject Planning with the Gantt Chart
Coming soonPlot a project on the Gantt chart — milestones, dependencies, constraints, allocations — and have it sync straight back to BC job planning lines.
18 lessonsProduction Planning
Coming soonAssembly orders and production orders: sending them from BC, rescheduling in DS, and the visualisation patterns that work for factory floors.
9 lessons
Part 4: Advanced Features
4 chaptersAdvanced Planning Board
Coming soonPower-user features that live on the planning board itself: the capacity pivot, appointment containers, and routes. Closes with a capstone use case combining the three.
18 lessonsCustomizing the Display
Coming soonTailoring what planners see: appointment subject and body, the editor's fields, and the details pane's columns and labels.
8 lessonsPlanning Rules: Calendars, Constraints, Filters
Coming soonRule-based scheduling: calendars and working hours, date constraints, and custom resource filters that drive who can plan what, when.
17 lessonsDeep-dive into Project Planning
Coming soonGantt scheduling modes, baselines, critical path, drag-and-drop editing, multi-project work, and the BC line-level settings that drive the behaviour.
18 lessons
Part 5: Administration
2 chaptersSecurity
Coming soonUsers, user groups, roles, data-driven security via filter groups, status limitations, and managing user-created content.
9 lessonsAdditional Setup Modules
Coming soonMobile App and the Exchange Connector, plus the remaining Application Setup tabs, plus the Backoffice and Exchange management portals admins use day-to-day.
11 lessons
Part 6: Development & Integrations
3 chaptersLow Code
Coming soonIntegrating Dime.Scheduler without writing code — Power Platform connector, Webhook, and Zapier.
8 lessonsDevelopment
Coming soonThe data model, Web APIs, Import Service, Actions, and the Dime.Scheduler SDK — installation, examples, authentication, import, and the CLI.
8 lessonsBC Development
Coming soonBehind the scenes of the standard BC connector and how to extend it — custom fields, constraints, repair-status flows, codeunit modifications, routes, and emails.
9 lessons