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Troubleshooting blank output and formatting dates and numbers after upgrading...
After upgrading to Business Central 20 Cloud, you might encounter the following issues: By mistake, Microsoft has enabled a new feature in Business Central that defaults to a new Word rendering engine...
View ArticleForNAV Direct Print – Polling Strategy
The Direct Print service monitors the print queue in Business Central to detect new print jobs waiting to be printed. It does this by polling the print queue directly and using a signaling hub. When...
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ForNAV Email Body Layouts
You can use ForNAV reports to generate email body text. However, you might not always get what you expect. In this article, we will look at some of the challenges and try to explain the underlying...
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License Validation Cloud
This article is relevant for ForNAV installations when running Business Central Cloud/SaaS. If you are running ForNAV for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central OnPrem or private cloud, please read...
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Merging a new ForNAV report into an existing extension
When creating a new ForNAV report, it is very convenient to be able to upload the report in an extension directly from the Designer, instead of having to create Visual Studio Code extension, save the...
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Upgrading ForNAV reports and layouts from OnPrem to Universal Code
To upgrade ForNAV reports and layouts from OnPrem to Universal Code: Download the ForNAV Report Pack (Universal Code) for OnPrem – ForNAV and install it using PowerShell. Open the ForNAV Designer and...
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Printing a ForNAV report to a receipt/continuous/infinite page size printer
When printing a ForNAV report to a receipt/continuous/infinite page size printer, the printer normally receives a FF (Form feed) command at the end of the print job and, since the printer typically...
View ArticleUpdate to Microsoft Dynamics Business Central 20.2 Cloud
When Microsoft updates your Cloud environment to Business Central 20.2, you must update the ForNAV app from AppSource. This is because Microsoft has, by mistake, disabled the event we are using for...
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Character spacing
ForNAV reports do not have a character spacing setting for text boxes and labels. However, you can still get a similar result by introducing spaces in the text. Here is an image from a report where the...
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Getting payment service information on ForNAV document reports
In Business Central you can choose a payment service for you documents (Order, Invoice, etc.) To leverage this in ForNAV you need to define a JavaScript record on the Sales, Purchase or Service...
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Importing ForNAV layouts and language files using PowerShell
When using a built pipeline to deploy a new Business Central installation it is also required to be able to install ForNAV layouts and language files without manual intervention To do this, the...
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Using ForNAV to print ZPL to a Zebra printer
This article is only relevant if you are running ForNAV Customizable Report Pack version 6.3.0.7 or later – or ForNAV 6.3.0.2289 or later. When printing to a Zebra label or receipt printer, it is often...
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Export/Import backup of ForNAV Setup, Layouts, Language, and File Storage
A customer ForNAV report project is often developed using a sandbox and when the reports are ready the result must be deployed to a production system. To make this as easy as possible, the ForNAV...
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How to add a different watermark for follow-up pages
In ForNAV, you can add a different watermark per page using JavaScript. The syntax for this is: CurrReport.AddWatermark(<pageno>,<blobfield>) where pageno is interpreted as 0 = all, or 1… =...
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Adding editable fields, checkboxes, and signatures to a PDF
Adding editable fields and checkboxes to a PDF In some scenarios, you might want to create PDFs with fields, so that the receiver of the PDF can insert a value and return the PDF to the sender. To...
View ArticleImage types supported by ForNAV
ForNAV reports support the following types of images OnPrem and in the SaaS cloud solution: PDF (vectorized images) Bitmap (BMP, DIB, RLE) Jpeg (JPG, JPEG) Gif (GIF) Tiff (TIF, TIFF) Png (PNG) Image...
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Design button removed from the request page
We have removed the Design button from the request page on ForNAV reports because it was confusing to many end-users. To design a report, click the relevant report list (Standard Reports, My Reports,...
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Add item tracking lines to any Business Central report
With the release of ForNAV 6.3.0.8, it is now possible to add item tracking lines (serial and lot numbers) to several standard ForNAV reports. You can add item tracking lines to the following tables:...
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License update in ForNAV Direct Print
When you are running ForNAV Direct Print and your ForNAV license is changed (for example, the period is extended or additional users are added), the license information is automatically updated – this...
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The webclient sometime hangs when creating more than one report at a time
When saving more than one RDLC or Word report within the code path of saving a ForNAV report, the client sometimes hangs. The root cause is the Business Central Reporting Service, which sometime hangs...
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