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Dime.Scheduler

Course outline

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Orientation

Introduction to Dime.Scheduler
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Part 1: Introduction to Dime.Scheduler

3 chapters
  1. Orientation

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    Read-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).

  2. Getting Started

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    What Dime.Scheduler is, who it's for, and how to get from a fresh tenant to your first scheduled appointment.

  3. Your Dime.Scheduler UI

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    A helicopter overview of the UI. The components, dock panels, profiles, and layouts you'll personalize so the tool fits your business processes.

Part 2: The Planning Process

4 chapters
  1. Planning Preparation

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    Sending masterdata from Business Central, finding the work to be done, and finding the right resource by location, qualifications, and availability.

  2. Scheduling with the Planning Board

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    Drag-and-drop scheduling, the BC sync that runs underneath, date navigation, and rescheduling without losing your mind.

  3. Finding Appointments on Your Planning Board

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    Visual indicators, retracing planned tasks, notifications, overbooking, and constraints — so the right appointments are always one glance away.

  4. Consulting Your Schedule

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    End-user-facing surfaces: the Dime.Scheduler Agenda, the Exchange sync, and the mobile app — for everyone who consumes the schedule.

Part 3: Business Central Modules

4 chapters
  1. Connecting Business Central

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    The real BC ↔ DS setup: app registration, multi-backoffice connector, the Backoffice Portal, and resource planning hierarchy.

  2. Ad-hoc Workflow

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    Sales orders and ad-hoc project planning — the loop of create-in-BC, plan-in-DS, sync-back-to-BC.

  3. Project Planning with the Gantt Chart

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    Plot a project on the Gantt chart — milestones, dependencies, constraints, allocations — and have it sync straight back to BC job planning lines.

  4. Production Planning

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    Assembly orders and production orders: sending them from BC, rescheduling in DS, and the visualisation patterns that work for factory floors.

Part 4: Advanced Features

4 chapters
  1. Advanced Planning Board

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    Power-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.

  2. Customizing the Display

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    Tailoring what planners see: appointment subject and body, the editor's fields, and the details pane's columns and labels.

  3. Planning Rules: Calendars, Constraints, Filters

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    Rule-based scheduling: calendars and working hours, date constraints, and custom resource filters that drive who can plan what, when.

  4. Deep-dive into Project Planning

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    Gantt scheduling modes, baselines, critical path, drag-and-drop editing, multi-project work, and the BC line-level settings that drive the behaviour.

Part 5: Administration

2 chapters
  1. Security

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    Users, user groups, roles, data-driven security via filter groups, status limitations, and managing user-created content.

  2. Additional Setup Modules

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    Mobile App and the Exchange Connector, plus the remaining Application Setup tabs, plus the Backoffice and Exchange management portals admins use day-to-day.

Part 6: Development & Integrations

3 chapters
  1. Low Code

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    Integrating Dime.Scheduler without writing code — Power Platform connector, Webhook, and Zapier.

  2. Development

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    The data model, Web APIs, Import Service, Actions, and the Dime.Scheduler SDK — installation, examples, authentication, import, and the CLI.

  3. BC Development

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    Behind the scenes of the standard BC connector and how to extend it — custom fields, constraints, repair-status flows, codeunit modifications, routes, and emails.