VJS: Visual Jobs Scheduler for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Resource Credit | NETRONIC
New release of Visual Jobs Scheduler for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Netronic has announced the enhancements of the Visual Jobs Scheduler (VJS), their interactive planning app for visualizing jobs, job tasks, job planning lines, and resources.
#1 Create links between job planning lines
The VJS now enables creating links between job planning lines by means of a new context menu. According to customers needs and planning situation, you can select between two possible relations:
- Start-Start (the successor must not start before the processer)
- Finish-Start
The link structure that you build this way will be taken into account when a job planning line in this chain is moved so that all job planning lines of the chain are moved according to their position, or remain where they are.
#2 Schedule successors
This feature, having also been implemented in the July release, is directly connected with the option of creating a link chain. It can be found as a new entry in the menu ribbon and in the context menu of the job planning lines. This ensures that the link structure is taken into account with no buffer time, i.e. linked operations are processed without temporal offset. This applies to the selected node and all its successors.
#3 Indicate violated link orders in red
If the link order within a link structure gets violated, the according link(s) appear in red.
#4 Calculate and distribute planning line quantity taking into account a resource’s capacity
As it is widely known, the quantity of job planning lines is calculated independently of the resource’s capacity in standard Dynamics 365 Business Central. If you have a look at the resource “David Butler” in the screenshot below, he is allocated 16 hours, but only has the capacity of 8 hours.
If you want to bypass this way of visualizing the quantity, you can make use of the new feature that came with the August release. Since this is a company-wide setting, Netronic implemented a new dialog “VJS Company Settings” where “Calculate Job Planning Line Duration” has to be ticked.
After having confirmed and reloaded, David Bulter’s task was lengthened accordingly.
#5 Regard non-working periods when rescheduling job planning lines
If you haven’t activated the “Calculate Job Planning Line Duration” option in the “VJS Company Settings”, the VJS takes into account the days with no capacity when job planning lines are moved.
#6 Information during long calculations
When a calculation takes a bit longer than expected, a status window pops up informing you.
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