Drag & drop project planning and resource scheduling for the standard jobs module in Microsoft Dynamics 365 BC

Visual Jobs Scheduler (VJS) is an extension app by Netronics that fully integrates into both the jobs and the resource planning module of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

The extension comes with a project Gantt chart and a resource Gantt chart and visualises jobs, job tasks, job planning lines, and resource allocations.

Turn jobs and resource data into an actionable project plan Gantt chart.

Project planning and resource scheduling features in action

This 60-minute video shows all major Visual Jobs Scheduler features in action. It is a recorded webinar in which we show 12 steps to effective engineering-to-order project management.

It covers the visual creation of project templates, the planning of new projects as well as their time planning, and their resource scheduling.

All of this is fully integrated into Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Drag & drop planning of jobs, job tasks, planning lines, and resources

Visually plan jobs, job tasks, and job planning lines and resource allocations by simple mouse actions such as drag & drop. The VJS both supports horizontal movements (i.e. modification of start and end date), vertical changes (i.e. modification of resource allocation), and a change of the job planning line quantity. At the same time, you can implement and visualize dependencies of job tasks by simple interactions as well as split job planning lines.

Many support functions for quickly navigating

The Visual Job Viewer offers lots of options that make navigating in the planning board very easy: jump to the time now line with one click, zoom into a period by mouse-wheel, jump back to your starting position and much more.

Create new job planning lines interactively

The "creation mode" of the VJS shows a list of your resources (in the Job View) or a list with all your jobs, job planning lines and job tasks (in the Resource View) so that you can interactively assign a resource to a task or a job task to a resource by dragging it from the list to the chart.

Understand resource load, not just project structure

The Visual Jobs Scheduler is not just an interactive Gantt chart as you might know it from other project management solutions. Along with the position of jobs, job tasks and job planning lines in terms of time and their allocation to single resources it also shows the respective resource utilization. If moving a job task results in an overload, an optical warning will be given so that you can react immediately. Of course, this happens in real-time.

Complete integration into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

The VJS fully integrates in Dynamics 365 Business Central and directly connects to its database, not requiring the implementation of another one. This tight integration brings a couple of benefits for the users: they do not need to learn a new UI, they can continue to work in their standard ERP environment and they a get a couple of shortcuts from the visual scheduling extension to the ERP system: Double-clicking a job, e.g., opens the respective job card.