What I build in Business Central

API integration

Subcontractor compliance

Block a purchase order or a payment when the RBQ licence, the Revenu Québec attestation or the CNESST letter is missing or expired.

What it shows

• HttpClient to open data (RBQ licences, RENA register)
• Events that block release and payment
• Job queue for the weekly refresh
• AL test app

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Control add-in

Drag-and-drop scheduler

Place resources on a visual calendar right inside a BC page, with no separate app.

What it shows

• JavaScript control add-in shipped in the extension
• Each booking is a sales order line
• Two-way calls between the AL page and the JavaScript

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AI in BC

AI assistant in Business Central

Ask a question about company data in English or French and get an answer with the numbers.

What it shows

• Read-only tools called by the model
• Local model (Ollama) or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
• Question log to check the answers

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Reports and documents

Custom forms and reports

Invoices, orders and quotes that look like the company's own, in French and English, with the fields it needs.

What it shows

• Word, Excel and RDLC (Report Builder) layouts
• New fields added to a report through an extension
• Layout per customer or per language
• New reports from scratch

Validation

French on sales documents

Check every document for a Quebec customer before it is released and posted.

What it shows

• Subscribers on the release and posting events
• Issue list with a link to what to fix
• UI translated to fr-CA (XLIFF)

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Integration

Customer order import

Create sales orders from the files of several customers and sources, with clear rules when a line matches nothing.

What it shows

• One source per customer, each with its own rules
• Order rejected or line skipped with a warning, per source
• Duplicates refused, re-import after a fix
• AL test app

Client work: I show it live on a call, without the client's data.

Power Platform

Customer portal with Power Pages

Customers see their own orders and invoices live from BC.

What it shows

• Dataverse virtual tables over the BC APIs
• Per-contact security (each customer sees only their own)

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Azure

Sync with Azure Functions

Keep an outside app and Business Central in sync both ways.

What it shows

• HTTP and timer triggers
• Custom API page in BC
• AL code calling back out

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Reporting

Ready-made views for Power BI

Give Power BI clean, clearly named BC data, without rebuilding the joins in every report.

What it shows

• Read-only API queries (sales, inventory, receivables)
• Data dictionary in English and French, served by API
• A Power Query script that loads it all

I show it live on a call.

Upgrade

NAV to Business Central

Sort the customizations into what standard BC now covers and what becomes an extension.

What it shows

• Inventory of modified objects
• C/AL to AL conversion
• Data migration

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