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Overview

Guides for partners integrating Business Central with Dime.Scheduler. The reference pages under Installation and Configuration tell you what each setting does; these guides show you the order to do things in and what tends to go wrong.

If you have never connected the two systems before, the quick start guide is a slide deck that takes you from an empty BC container to your first appointmentAppointmentA task scheduled to a resource for a specific period - the scheduled instance you see on the planning board.. It is the fastest way to see the whole shape of the integration before you commit to a customer environment.

From there:

  • Building a sandbox. Running a container-based development environment sets up a local BC instance on Docker that you can break safely.
  • Authentication. Set up and test OAuth2 continues where the connectorConnectorAn integration that links Dime.Scheduler to a back-office system, routing data in and scheduling decisions back out. setup leaves off, and is worth doing in a sandbox first.
  • Matching resources to work. Use dimensions for filter groups turns BC dimensionsDimensionA Business Central dimension. The connector can read a resource’s default dimensions as the source of its type, department, team or pin, and use dimensions as the source of filter groups and filter values. into the qualifications and requirements Dime.Scheduler filters on.
  • Going further than the standard extension. Extending the Dime.Scheduler extension is the deep end: events, custom tables and your own AL code.